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Stripe Webhook Documentation Review

What's this blog post about?

The review praises Stripe's comprehensive and high-quality documentation, covering aspects such as signature verification, event catalog, retry policy, troubleshooting and failure recovery, and testing tools. It highlights that the company provides official libraries for verifying signatures and offers guidance on how to verify signatures manually. The review suggests minor improvements, including providing sample payloads for each event type and featuring a section in the documentation detailing the full retry schedule. Overall, it recommends Stripe's webhook documentation as an example to follow for other businesses aiming to create exceptional documentation.

Company
Svix

Date published
Feb. 8, 2024

Author(s)
Ken Ruf

Word count
1020

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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