How do you handle lost webhooks in production?
I've worked at several companies where we'd discover hours later that critical webhooks from Stripe/Shopify never arrived (deployment, timeout, bug, etc.). Every team ended up building the same solution: retry logic, dead letter queue, monitoring. Curious how others handle this: - Do you rely on the provider's retry policy? - Built your own reliability layer? - Use a service? - Just manually reconcile when it happens? (Context: Building https://relaehook.com to solve this, but genuinely curious what the norm is) 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've worked at several companies where we'd discover hours later that critical webhooks from Stripe/Shopify never arrived (deployment, timeout, bug, etc.). Every team ended up building the same solution: retry logic, dead letter queue, monitoring. Curious how others handle this: - Do you rely on the provider's retry policy? - Built your own reliability layer? - Use a service? - Just manually reconcile when it happens? (Context: Building https://relaehook.com to solve this, but genuinely curious what the norm is)
I've worked at several companies where we'd discover hours later that critical webhooks from Stripe/Shopify never arrived (deployment, timeout, bug, etc.). Every team ended up building the same solution: retry logic, dead letter queue, monitoring. Curious how others handle this: - Do you rely on the provider's retry policy? - Built your own reliability layer? - Use a service? - Just manually reconcile when it happens? (Context: Building https://relaehook.com to solve this, but genuinely curious what the norm is) 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've worked at several companies where we'd discover hours later that critical webhooks from Stripe/Shopify never arrived (deployment, timeout, bug, etc.). Every team ended up building the same solution: retry logic, dead letter queue, monitoring. Curious how others handle this: - Do you rely on the provider's retry policy? - Built your own reliability layer? - Use a service? - Just manually reconcile when it happens? (Context: Building https://relaehook.com to solve this, but genuinely curious what the norm is)
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