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Stop Building Webhook Retries Yourself
We pointed a webhook sender at a receiver built to fail the common ways production fails: outages, 429s, timeouts, dead endpoints, bad signatures. Then we watched the retries, the schedule, the signature checks, and the replay happen without writing any of it. Here is the run, with the code and the attempt logs.
Running a Background Job That Must Not Be Lost
A queue gets your job to a worker, not to the finish line. What happens when the worker dies halfway, and a durable executor in 90 lines of TypeScript.
What It Actually Takes to Deliver a Webhook in Production
Sending a webhook is one HTTP POST. Delivering one is a retry schedule, a signature scheme, an idempotency story, and a way to answer "did you get it?" six hours later. Here is the whole problem, and a working Node implementation of both sides.