Heard this from a developer friend of mine regarding how webhooks compare to polling/pulling from an API: Think of the last time you went on vacation with a child in the backseat. Polling is like the child asking every few minutes “Are we there yet?”. A webhook is you turning around and saying, “don’t worry about asking, I’ll tell you as soon as we get there”. Polling is certainly more resource intensive on both ends and is more prone to periodic failures. Even if a system has 99.9% uptime, polling increases the odds you will hit that .1 % chance the system is down. Webhooks on the other hand use far less resources and puts the responsibility on us to let you know when something happens. Webhooks are also typically closer to real time as they are fired off as soon as a condition is satisfied.
The resources part also speaks to me as we begin to consider digital sustainability. No need to use the electricity to poll an API if a webhook will work. 👍 🌍
Heard this from a developer friend of mine regarding how webhooks compare to polling/pulling from an API:
Think of the last time you went on vacation with a child in the backseat. Polling is like the child asking every few minutes “Are we there yet?”. A webhook is you turning around and saying, “don’t worry about asking, I’ll tell you as soon as we get there”.
Polling is certainly more resource intensive on both ends and is more prone to periodic failures. Even if a system has 99.9% uptime, polling increases the odds you will hit that .1 % chance the system is down. Webhooks on the other hand use far less resources and puts the responsibility on us to let you know when something happens.
Webhooks are also typically closer to real time as they are fired off as soon as a condition is satisfied.
The resources part also speaks to me as we begin to consider digital sustainability. No need to use the electricity to poll an API if a webhook will work. 👍 🌍
Never heard the term “mailhook” but I like it! Been doing those for years as a last ditch effort and it always felt like cheating 🤣
My connection was quite bad on this one here but I'm glad Sahil's audio and video came through properly! 🚀 [ Claudia ]
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