Implementation Patterns

Building webhooks that work well in production requires thoughtful design decisions. These guides cover the patterns and practices for implementing webhook systems, from payload design to subscription management.

📄️ Designing Webhook Payloads

When you build a webhook system, one of the first decisions you face is what to put in the payload. This choice affects everything from bandwidth costs to how easy your webhooks are to consume. Get it wrong and you will frustrate developers, create unnecessary API load, or paint yourself into a corner when requirements change.

📄️ Webhook Event Naming Conventions

Event names are the first thing developers see when working with your webhooks. A clear naming convention helps them understand what happened without reading documentation, route events to the right handlers, and predict names for events they have not seen yet. A confusing convention creates friction every time someone integrates with your system.

📄️ Building a Webhook Sender

Most webhook guides focus on receiving webhooks from third-party services. But if you are building a platform, API, or SaaS product, you will eventually need to send webhooks to your users. This flips the perspective: instead of consuming events, you are producing them.