The wonderful world of webhooks

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States that webhooks are pubsub over HTTP, not polling, so servers push events and clients just reply 200; GitHub webhooks include a verbose JSON payload (the “smallest” example still has 111 more lines) with URL, owner, avatar, content_type and secret, and require pre-arrangement. Advice is to accept and store then respond immediately (queue and process later). Shows practical wiring with Hubot and Zapier, and warns a minimal payload can trigger a Thundering Herd when millions of subscribers exist.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:26Webhooks in the Wild
3. 1:04How APIs Work
4. 1:24How Webhooks Work
5. 2:10APls Over Time
6. 3:14Webhooks Over Time
7. 3:57Setup
8. 5:16Inside A Webhook
9. 7:21Receiving Webhooks

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