March 18, 2026
Webhook Handling in the Real World: What Can Go Wrong and How We Handled It
Webhooks break in production when you assume perfect conditions. This guide walks through real-world webhook challenges; duplicate events, processing delays, security vulnerabilities, and event ordering issues, and showing you proven patterns like idempotency, async processing, and signature verification to build resilient, production-ready webhook systems.
Janith Abhayarathna
