Hookdeck Review: October 2024

In this October 2024 review, we cover our enhanced automatic retries with new scheduling and status-based rules, the ability to delete transformations, new Source verifications, an update to the AWS Destinations auth, customer stories from Wineshipping and Weekend Health, a guide to choosing your event-driven architecture infrastructure, and new releases for Hookdeck's tools and SDKs.

Enhanced Automatic Retries

The enhanced retries update allows webhook retries to be scheduled down to the second. Status-based retry rules can now be configured for specific HTTP response codes, providing nuanced control over retry strategies. A new X-Hookdeck-Will-Retry-After header offers visibility into upcoming retry attempts, and Hookdeck now supports the Retry-After header from destination responses, enabling custom retry logic and the ability to cancel further retries.

Read the Enhanced Retries blog post to find out more about the improvements to Hookdeck retries.

Delete Transformations

You can now delete Hookdeck transformations via the dashboard and the API. Prior to this update, transformations could only be removed from a Connection and could not be deleted.

Source and AWS Auth Updates

Source Webhook Verification support has been added for:

• Bridge: Payments platform
• Treezor: Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform
• Praxis: Payments platform

The AWS Destination authentication has been updated to support setting a Region and a Service.

Customer Story: Wineshipping

Hookdeck helped Wineshipping, a logistics company for the wine industry, transition from a polling-based architecture to an event-driven one.

Wineshipping was facing inefficiencies with its old polling-based system, including wasted compute power and issues during peak seasons. By adopting Hookdeck's event gateway, Wineshipping was able to:

• Achieve a 90% reduction in unnecessary API calls
• Improve customer service performance by 3,000%
• Accelerate the delivery of new features through improved testing capabilities
• Handle instant scaling, especially during high-demand periods

The article highlights how Hookdeck's event-driven architecture infrastructure and features enabled Wineshipping to transform its logistics platform and better serve its customers.

Read the Wineshipping customer story.

Customer Story: Weekend Health

Weekend Health, a telehealth provider, uses Hookdeck to improve its webhook infrastructure. Before Hookdeck, Weekend Health faced challenges in managing webhooks during development, deployment, and operations. Hookdeck provided a centralized, consistent way to handle webhooks, enabling Weekend Health to:

• Establish and maintain a consistent development environment
• Onboard new engineering team members faster
• Simplify and accelerate the integration of new services
• Centralize webhook management
• Improve visibility and management of webhook errors

Overall, Hookdeck transformed Weekend Health's ability to serve its app users by streamlining its webhook infrastructure and providing better visibility and reliability.

Read the Weekend Health customer story.

Choosing Event-Driven Architecture Infrastructure

In this article, James Higginbotham explores the key considerations for selecting an event-driven architecture (EDA) infrastructure. The discussion includes the importance of scalability, reliability, and flexibility in EDA systems. James compares various EDA solutions, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses to help you make an informed decision.

Read the full article on Choosing EDA Infrastructure.

Tools & SDK Releases

• Hookdeck Terraform Provider v0.5.0 released
• Hookdeck Go SDK v0.6.0 released
• Hookdeck Vercel Middleware v0.3.1 released and tested with Next.js 15

That's it for the October 2024 review.

Don't forget to get in touch if you'd like to share your story of using Hookdeck or if you have any questions.