{
  "id": 8649767,
  "title": "What is a webhook? How webhooks work, and the six ways they break in production",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/what-is-a-webhook-how-webhooks-work-and-the-six-ways-they-break-in",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-20T08:49:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/vadymkykalo/what-is-a-webhook-how-webhooks-work-and-the-six-ways-they-break-in-production-2jfg"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This is a cross-post. The original on the Railhook blog has a diagram for each part: the anatomy of a signed request, polling against push, the retry ladder, duplicates, out-of-order delivery and secret rotation. A customer pays for order ord_8412 . The shop sends your backend a webhook, and your handler awards loyalty points, emails a receipt and calls the warehouse — which takes eleven seconds.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}