Building Webhooks That Scale

Webhooks are essential for integrating software services and improving productivity and user experience. Scaling webhooks beyond low volume usage requires handling high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance. Decoupling the webhook handler from the backend server or API can improve reliability. Background processing of data and asynchronous handling of back pressure are crucial for decreasing response time and managing load. Handling failures, payload changes, and downtime requires idempotent code and a dead letter queue. Inngest is an all-in-one solution for building reliable webhooks with features like queuing, serverless functions, retries, and logging.