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Inngest Alternatives: Hookdeck Event Gateway, Trigger.dev, Temporal, and Restate Compared
Looking for an Inngest alternative? Whether you need a webhook gateway for ingestion or a different durable runtime, compare Hookdeck Event Gateway, Trigger.dev, Temporal, and Restate on the jobs each actually does.
BullMQ Alternatives for Webhook Retries: Hookdeck Event Gateway, pg-boss, Cloud Queues, and Convoy Compared
Replacing BullMQ for webhook retries in Express, NestJS, or Fastify? Compare Hookdeck Event Gateway, pg-boss, Bee-Queue, AWS SQS, Cloud Tasks, and Convoy on retry semantics, observability, and operational cost.
AWS SQS Alternatives for Webhooks: Hookdeck Event Gateway, Convoy, and Cloud Queues Compared
Replacing AWS SQS for webhook ingestion and retries? Compare Hookdeck Event Gateway, Convoy, Google Pub/Sub, and RabbitMQ on signature verification, dead-letter handling, retry policies, and operational cost.
Shopify Next Generation Events: What's Changing and How to Migrate
Shopify's Next Generation Events replace fixed-payload topic subscriptions with filterable, GraphQL-defined event subscriptions in your app's TOML. Here's what's changing, what stays the same, and how to plan an incremental migration with Hookdeck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Building sentiment-aware support replies with Intercom and OpenAI
Route Intercom conversation webhooks through Hookdeck to an OpenAI sentiment-and-reply handler — with enrichment, filters, rate limits, retries, and replay — then write classifications and drafts back into Intercom, Slack, and a warehouse.
Building real-estate property lead handoff with Google Forms and AI agents
Wire Google Forms lead submissions through Hookdeck to an AI agent (direct-to-LLM or n8n/Inngest/Trigger.dev) — with filters, transforms, rate limits, and retries — then fan agent decisions out to CRM, calendar, Slack, and email.