Re:Webhooks do’s and dont’s: what we learned after integrati...
by akamaozu on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:42PM
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This.
Previous devs were doing expensive things whenever we received webhooks. This meant we DoS'd ourselves every time a sizable amount of webhooks came our way.
Set up a tiny server on Heroku that received the webhooks and put them on a queue. A worker with a configurable concurrency level later forwards the events on the queue .
Dropped from four digit 502s and 504s weekly to virtually none.
Previous devs were doing expensive things whenever we received webhooks. This meant we DoS'd ourselves every time a sizable amount of webhooks came our way.
Set up a tiny server on Heroku that received the webhooks and put them on a queue. A worker with a configurable concurrency level later forwards the events on the queue .
Dropped from four digit 502s and 504s weekly to virtually none.