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> Webhooks are the most common way to receive signals from external systems, but processing them safely is not trivial I see webhooks documented all the time,
by jgalt212 4mo ago
> Webhooks are the most common way to receive signals from external systems, but processing them safely is not trivial
I see webhooks documented all the time, but I have yet to use them in practice, nor have my customers requested them. Is the above not true, or are they widely used in some sectors and not others?
- intelcoders 4mo agoIn payment gateway integration, webhooks are usually considered a single source of truth for updating the payment status, with status check api as a fallback.
- weatherlight 4mo agoI receive webhooks all the time as ack that something was processed/ or a notification of the status of some sort of thing in an external system that we don't control.
- f3408fh 4mo agoThey are indeed everywhere, but it's possible you don't have a need for them. For example, every time you buy something online using Stripe, the seller receives a webhook indicating that a purchase was completed.