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The Valley of Webhooks

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1. Webhooks alone can’t guarantee delivery; a pull‑or‑reconciliation fallback is essential

"Webhooks aren't at-least-once, nor at-most-once, nor are they guaranteed in‑order. Some people build systems to make them more reliable, but if you really care about the data you need to think of a webhook delivery as best‑effort, a bit like UDP." – qlkzy

2. A common, Stripe‑style event‑polling API is needed to avoid vendor lock‑in

"Stripe events API is one of the examples of how to do things properly. And SCROLL is just trying to create a common spec so that everyone offers a stripe‑like event polling api." – weli

3. Cursor semantics and state‑sync issues must be handled explicitly

"How does the provider know what event the cursor you provided refers to?" – weli

These three themes capture the dominant concerns: unreliability of pure webhook pushes, the push for a standardized polling spec, and the practical complexities of cursor management and state reconciliation.


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