Webhooks are simple and ubiquitous, and that's both a weakness and a strength. It's also why they are used for a lot of things, even things they are not great for (state sync).

These weaknesses are why we[1] added FIFO endpoints, Polling Endpoints, and what we call "Svix Stream" as ways to do ordered state synchronization (each with its own tradeoffs). This lets people consume the events in the way that best fits their use-case. We are working on more things to make the state sync even easier. I'd love to hear about more challenges people are facing with webhooks, as we want to make these things better.

OP: I'd love to hear more about your thoughts there, and will send you an email in a moment.

P.S, if you're unfamiliar, please check out Standard Webhooks[2]. It's a spec we created to help with signature verification that has been adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and many others. We are chipping at one webhook challenge at a time. :)

1: I'm the founder of Svix (mentioned in the post), we do webhooks infrastructure as a service.

2: https://www.standardwebhooks.com/