📄️ What is a webhook?
Webhooks, also known as http callbacks, are a way for APIs to notify applications that a specific event has occurred without receiving a request.
Glossary
📄️ What is a webhook endpoint?
A webhook endpoint is a URL that receives webhook event notifications and can trigger an action based on the payload sent in the message.
📄️ What is a webhook retry?
A webhook retry is an attempt to send a webhook message that has already failed. Webhook retries are a best practice when designing webhook systems to achieve high reliability and deliverability of event notifications.
📄️ What is a webhook URL?
A webhook URL is the URL that you can send an API request to in order to notify the user that a certain event has occurred.
📄️ Webhook Authentication
Webhook authentication is the process of verifying the identity and legitimacy of webhook requests coming from the webhook provider to the webhook receiver.
📄️ Webhook Proxy
A webhook proxy is a service that acts as an intermediary between webhook providers and webhook receivers, forwarding incoming webhook requests to the appropriate destination.
📄️ Webhook Signature
A webhook signature is a webhook security mechanism used to verify the authenticity and integrity of webhook messages sent from a provider to a receiver.
📄️ What is a webhook gateway?
A webhook gateway is an intermediary service or component that sits between webhook providers and webhook receivers.
📄️ Exponential backoff
Exponential backoff is an algorithm for limiting attempts by increasing the time delay between attempts exponentially.
📄️ SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery)
Server-Side Request Forgery, or SSRF, is a type of security vulnerability that occurs when an attacker manipulates a web application to make requests on behalf of the server.
📄️ HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code)
Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) is a specific type of message authentication code (MAC) that involves a cryptographic hash function and a secret key.
📄️ Dead Letter Queue
A dead letter queue (DLQ) is a secondary queue used in messaging systems to store messages that cannot be successfully processed or delivered by the primary system.
📄️ Message Broker
A message broker is a middleware that facilitates communication between distributed systems or applications by transmitting messages between them.
📄️ Event Driven Architecture
Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern that revolves around the production, detection, and reaction to events.