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Guide to Facebook Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about Facebook (Graph API) webhooks, their features, the verification handshake, X-Hub-Signature-256 verification, limitations, and the best practices for working with them in production.
Guide to DocuSign Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about DocuSign Connect webhooks: the JSON SIM event model, X-DocuSign-Signature verification, retry behavior, and the best practices for working with them in production.
Guide to Customer.io Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about Customer.io Reporting Webhooks, their event model (object_type + metric), X-CIO-Signature verification, delivery behavior, and the best practices for production.
Guide to AWS SNS Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about AWS SNS HTTP/S webhooks, the SubscriptionConfirmation handshake, RSA signature verification, raw message delivery, retry behavior, and the best practices for production.
Guide to Attentive Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about Attentive webhooks: their events, x-attentive-hmac-sha256 verification, delivery and retry behavior, and the best practices for working with them in production.
Guide to Asana Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about Asana webhooks: the X-Hook-Secret handshake, X-Hook-Signature verification, event batches, heartbeats, and the best practices for working with them in production.
Guide to Airtable Webhooks: Features and Best Practices
In this guide, you will learn about Airtable webhooks: the thin-ping model, the payloads API, X-Airtable-Content-MAC verification, the 7-day expiry, and the best practices for working with them in production.
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.
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.