Hey HN - I'm the author of this post. (Founder of WorkOS) Lots of people have written about how to scale event-based systems or how to design distributed infra

Hey HN - I'm the author of this post. (Founder of WorkOS) Lots of people have written about how to scale event-based systems or how to design distributed infrastructure for queue management. But what's often overlooked is the subtle-yet-important product decisions that go into designing webhooks for a great developer experience. We don't actually offer webhooks-as-a-service at WorkOS, but we provide webhooks to developers and I've built this feature twice now, previously at Nylas and now at WorkOS. Hopefully this article helps the next person who builds them. :) For anyone curious how we do it at WorkOS, here's our webhooks API reference: https://workos.com/docs/reference/webhooks/connection https://workos.com/docs/reference/webhooks/connection