Reliable Webhook Delivery
When you're building a webhook delivery process it can sometimes be hard to know where to start or if you are making the best decisions. With a few tips you can get start strong and make it easier to maintaining the integration and develop new features.
Most people use http messages for webhook delivery because it is so widely supported, however its not the best for reliable delivery. You will need to a few features to ensure reliable message delivery.
Http requests can randomly fail depending on the network or if the server is having a problem. Also, Http doesnt have very strong authentication that meets todays demands.
When delivering webhooks over http its important to replay any messages that dont get successfully received. You can use the returned http status codes to check it was successful.
You should retry any messages with a 500-599 error code. These are likely when the receiver had an error processing the message. It could have been an intemitent error so they will expect you to retry.
