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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by thorgaardian on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#22359679)
Interesting use-case for it. Without prior knowledge of a solution like this I would have suggested you send the webhooks to a queue backed notification system (e.g. SNS backed by SQS) and subscribe to the event topic, but sounds must easier to configure and manage the way you instrumented it. Might be a good use-case for me to try out!
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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by cameroncooper on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:00PM (#22359743)
This is something you can easily configure with our automatic retry function. We have an option to return a pre-configured response to the caller, and put the request in a queue to be retried until successful. This allows you to have a sustained outage while making sure all calls are eventually delivered.
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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by ignoramous on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:51PM (#22360271)
> This allows you to have a sustained outage while making sure...

Re-driving queue backlogs at services recovering from sustained outages ends in tears almost always. Tread carefully. :)

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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by jrockway on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:06PM (#22362472)
Typically people use two pools for circuit breaking, with the limit set lower on retries: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overv...
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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by capableweb on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:49PM (#22360247)
Yeah, this is what I've seen most services who rely on webhooks from another service to do. Add in some monitoring of how many events are not yet processed (set a alarm when there is X amount of events in it) and you're done!
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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by disposedtrolley on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:31PM (#22361103)
We're currently building a GitHub integration which receives webhooks and kicks off a bunch of processing actions based on the event type. Your suggestion sounds like a great way to add some observability to the service -- thanks!
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