Webhooks Done Right: Delivering Events You Can Trust | Clickmasters

Verify signatures, respond fast (enqueue, then process), dedupe by event ID, and tolerate out-of-order arrival — the queue between receipt and processing is not optional.

Event schemas versioned additively, documented with samples, and a changelog consumers can subscribe to — webhooks are an API contract wearing an event costume.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.