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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by dolftax on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:02PM (#22360373)
Sure. The least we expect from any service sending webhooks is built-in retry strategy. GitHub doesn't. We were thinking of building this ourselves internally but if someone takes care of this for you reliably, why not.

For API tracker, even if their services go down for a short while, it isn't good for business. Though it's been only few weeks using API tracker, we had zero failed webhook deliveries. They say they've designed their systems with this as a primary goal, of course. What if AWS or GCP goes down. It's a matter of trust and SLAs.

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Re:Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the AP... by ignoramous on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:03PM (#22361358)
> What if AWS or GCP goes down. It's a matter of trust and SLAs.

AWS does have a 100% uptime SLA on some of its services: Route53, for example [0]. Not saying that ApiTracker could not be a 100% uptime service (in fact, it looks like that's their explicit goal), just pointing out that AWS / GCP do have services that never "go down" barring global catastrophes.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/a-case-study-in-gl... -- Route 53’s foremost goal is to always meet our promise of a 100% SLA for DNS queries – that all of our customers’ DNS names should resolve all the time.

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