Platform Guides

Guides to use webhooks with your favorite platforms

Why Redis is a great cache, but a bad webhook queue

A technical look at why Redis-backed webhook ingestion breaks at scale, and what a real webhook gateway gives you that Redis can't.

Redis Guide

Migrating Redis-backed webhook handling to Hookdeck Event Gateway

A phased migration plan for teams running BullMQ, Sidekiq, or custom Redis-backed webhook ingestion — without a quarter-long project.

Redis Guide

What RabbitMQ doesn't give you for webhooks (and what you'll end up building)

RabbitMQ is a serious message broker. It's also only 20% of what a webhook system needs. Here's what you'll end up building around it.

RabbitMQ Guide

Migrating from a RabbitMQ-backed webhook pipeline to Hookdeck

A concrete, phased migration plan for teams whose RabbitMQ-fronted webhook stack has outgrown the scaffolding around it.

RabbitMQ Guide

Hookdeck Event Gateway vs Temporal: Webhook Gateway and Durable Workflow Orchestrator Compared

A detailed comparison of Hookdeck Event Gateway and Temporal, covering where each fits in an event-driven system, how their features differ, and when to use one, the other, or both.

Temporal Comparison Guide

Hookdeck Event Gateway vs Inngest: Webhook Gateway and Durable Runtime Compared

A detailed comparison of Hookdeck Event Gateway and Inngest, covering where each fits in an event-driven system, how their features differ, and when to use one, the other, or both.

Inngest Comparison Guide

Webhook Gateways and Durable Runtimes: Two Tools for Reliable Agent Workflows

Webhook gateways and durable runtimes solve different halves of the reliable-agent-workflow problem. A guide to what each category does, where each shines, and how to decide which you need — or whether you need both.

Trigger.dev AI Guide

Why most webhook-triggered agents don't need a workflow engine

A case against over-tooling reliable agent infrastructure. If your webhook-triggered agent is three function calls with an LLM in the middle, a durable workflow engine is overkill. A gateway and a well-behaved handler will do — and keep the expensive option for later.

AI Guide

GitHub agent automation: Hookdeck, Trigger.dev, and Claude

Build AI-powered GitHub agent automation (PR reviews, issue labels, Slack summaries) with durable Trigger.dev tasks behind Hookdeck: GitHub Source Authentication, transforms, retries, and two routing patterns—task router vs connection routing at the edge.

GitHub Trigger.dev Slack AI Guide

Guide to BigCommerce Webhooks: Features and Best Practices

In this guide, you will learn about BigCommerce webhooks features, their behavior, and what are the best practices for working with them.

BigCommerce Guide