An overview of Hookdeck's journey to using ClickHouse as a data store solution.

Why We Chose ClickHouse to Improve Our User-Facing Analytics Performance of 1B+ Rows

This article highlights the considerations you need to take into account as you consider Kafka for your webhooks. 

Why Kafka Might Be an Overkill for Your Webhooks

Alex explains how he was able to deploy AI-generated filters using GPT for a custom Hookdeck syntax in under 24 hours.

Experimenting with GPT-Generated Filters

Learn why a “no body” request sets the `END_HEADERS & END_STREAM` flags on the HTTP/2 stream, whereas an “empty body” will result in only `END_HEADERS` . 

What Are the Differences Between Empty Body and No Body in HTTP/2?

How to use Hookdeck to integrate internet of things devices using Senet, featuring a sample integration of a carbon dioxide monitor. 

Integrate IoT Devices with Hookdeck and Senet

Learn how I am running macOS inside Docker (on Linux) with Wayland.

How to Run Macos Inside Docker on Linux, With Wayland

Follow Val in his journey to create a Chrome extension to help the team disable squash and merge on specific branches on GitHub.

How To Disable Squash & Merge on Specific GitHub Branches

We dissect Google's implementation of the self-signed service account authentication to replicate and enables us to use what Google uses internally instead of calling their OAuth endpoint.

How to Call Google Cloud Service Account Authorization Without Oauth

Learn how to make a simple GitHub Action that runs a shell script, a couple useful environment variables, and the recipe to run a SSH server and expose it over the internet despite the container not being publicly addressable.

How to Make a Github Action That Exposes SSH Server

Follow this guide to learn how to debug a GitHub Actions Worfklow using SSH. 

How to Debug a Github Actions Workflow via SSH

Read how Val managed to call Google Cloud APIs from Cloudflare Workers (no Cloudflare-ready SDK)! Follow his journey as he learns how Google Cloud authentication normally works with service accounts, and the cryptography behind it.

How to Call Google Cloud APIs From Cloudflare Workers

Maurice, Hookdeck's founding engineer, shares his lessons on database and out of memory issues while working on scaling Hookdeck.

Lessons From Hookdeck’s Quest for Scalability

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