Hookdeck tames webhook chaos, powers event-driven architectures
Better Stack Podcast episode 17 explores event-driven architectures, webhook chaos, and how AI agents change event handling. Hookdeck is highlighted as an Event Gateway designed to reliably queue, secure, and manage asynchronous webhooks and events.
As AI agents and real-time APIs proliferate, webhook management is transitioning from a backend utility to a critical piece of API gateway infrastructure that developers shouldn't build themselves.
* Out-of-the-box retry logic and queuing prevent data loss during receiver downtime.
* Event tracing simplifies debugging across complex, asynchronous event chains.
* Gateway-level signature verification secures endpoints without custom middleware.
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2026-07-13
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2026-07-13
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