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by ykumar6 3721 days ago
The blog post talks about how the api server was dropping web hooks, and there is no re-try mechanism built into most web hook senders.

Scaling out an api server is not resilient enough, and there needs to be a queue-based system fronting your web hooks so they aren't dropped

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Yes, but the title implies that they will stop using or supporting webhooks. A more accurate title would be "Handling Dropped Webhooks"