Engineering2026-05-187 min read

Webhook Reliability: Retries, Idempotency, and Dead-Letter Queues

Patterns for reliable event delivery when building on an operational event bus.

Design for failure

Webhooks fail. Retries with exponential backoff, idempotent handlers, and dead-letter queues keep operational integrations recoverable without silent data loss.

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