Handling Webhook Spikes for Shopify Store

The article discusses handling webhook spikes for Shopify stores due to increased traffic and scalability burdens. It presents a scenario where an online flower store called Flowerify experiences a surge in orders during Valentine's Day, causing its server to fail under the pressure of concurrent requests from the Shopify store. The article then compares different solutions such as vertical scaling of the server, deploying more servers (horizontal scaling), and asynchronous processing using message queues. It recommends Hookdeck, an Infrastructure as a Service for webhooks that offers request tracing, logging, alerting, retries, error handling, and an intuitive dashboard to manage webhook requests efficiently.