Designing a scalable Webhook using AWS Serverless Stack

Vinod Kumar Nair
4 min readMar 3, 2024

We have often used Webhook a lot during our interactions with the systems unknowingly but do we know what exactly a Webhook is and how it is better than other system design patterns like short/long polling?

Webhook

A Webhook is an HTTP/S call that gets triggered between the two systems where the source system triggers a specific event that leads to the notification of the…

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Vinod Kumar Nair

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