Designing a Webhook Delivery System for 10 Million Events a Day

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Somebody on your team is going to say it, probably in a planning meeting, probably while looking at a Jira ticket that has three words in it.

"Webhooks? That's just a POST request. Half a day."

And they are not wrong about the POST request part.

That is genuinely all a webhook is.

Designing a Webhook Delivery System for 10 Million Events a Day

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