Why Webhook Retry Logic Matters
Your webhook handler crashes. The provider sends a request. You miss it. Now what? Without proper webhook retry logic and exponential backoff implementation, transient failures become data loss. The provider might retry once or twice, but if your service is restarting, deploying, or temporarily saturated, those retries disappear into the void. Exponential backoff ensures that when things go wrong—and they will—you get multiple chances to process the event without hammering the provider's infrastructure.
The core problem: naive retry strategies either retry too fast (DDoS-ing yourself and the provider) or too slow (losing time-sensitive data). Exponential backoff strikes the balance by increasing wait time between attempts, giving your system breathing room to recover while respecting the provider's rate limits.
Prerequisites
Node.js 16+ or Python 3.8+ (examples provided in both)
