The Daily
A note a day on APIs and the realities of shipping web applications. Stuff I've actually learned across 25 years of doing the work.
Svix: Webhook Delivery as a Service - Worth the Line Item?
I added Svix to a client project last year and haven't rolled my own webhook queue since. Here's when it earns its keep and when it doesn't.
Svix: Webhook Delivery as a Service - Worth the Line Item? I've rolled my own webhook delivery system at least four times over the years. Every single time I thought I had it handled, something broke in production at 2am - a dead queue, a receiver that returned 200 but silently dropped the payload, a missing signature…
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Stripe Connect's hosted onboarding sounds turnkey until you actually implement it. Here's what I've learned shipping it for real marketplaces.
Stripe Connect: Don't lose sellers in the KYC maze Stripe Connect's hosted onboarding is genuinely good - until it isn't. The part Stripe doesn't put on the landing page is that KYC friction will kill your seller conversion rate if you don't architect the flow carefully. I've shipped this for a few marketplace clients…
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