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Notes on reliable event infrastructure.
Product updates, architecture notes, and workflow patterns for teams building on Hooksbase.
What is SQS? A practical primer for forwarders
Amazon SQS is AWS's managed message queue — durable, simple, and the right default for most async work inside AWS. Here is how it works, the Standard-vs-FIFO trade-off, and how webhook events end up in it.
What is EventBridge? AWS's pub/sub event bus explained
EventBridge is AWS's event bus — a routing layer that takes events from many sources and fans them out to many targets based on rules. Here is what it is, when it beats SQS or SNS, and how webhook events end up flowing through it.
Kafka vs SQS for webhook fan-out: when each fits
Kafka and SQS are often presented as alternatives. They have meaningfully different trade-offs. Here is when each fits for webhook fan-out, and the third option (a relay in front) most teams should consider first.
Webhook DLQs: design and recovery patterns
A DLQ holds messages that failed terminally so you can inspect and recover them. Here is how DLQs work, how to size the retry budget, what to put in each entry, and the five recovery patterns that ship in production.
Observability for webhook delivery (events, drains, alerts)
When a customer asks 'did your system receive my event?' the answer should be a three-click investigation, not a three-day forensic exercise. Here are the four signals to instrument, the alerts that matter, and the drain pattern that ties webhook delivery into the rest of your observability stack.