I find myself thinking about the often for any kind of distributed system, and here’s the rule of thumb: pulling events / polling works 100% of the time but is

I find myself thinking about the often for any kind of distributed system, and here’s the rule of thumb: pulling events / polling works 100% of the time but is inefficient, and webhooks work 99% of the time but are more efficient. Make the even ingestion job idempotent, so it can handle multiple receives, then hook up a pull / poll every 5 minutes or hour or whatever to start at the last pulled date (very important, don’t start at 5 minutes ago or you’ll miss downtimes). Then optionally set up webhooks or a push model.