Interactive architecture advice
Webhook vs Polling
Answer a few questions to explore a suggested pattern and its trade-offs. Each answer explains why it fits, what you gain and what to check before putting it into practice.
Webhooks push updates when something happens. Polling asks for updates at intervals. Consider delivery guarantees, required freshness and how you will recover missed changes.
01Your requirements
Look for documented retries, event IDs, signatures and a way to reconcile missed events.
Near real time means updates should arrive quickly. Periodic polling is often enough for reports or scheduled syncs.
Suggested pattern
Answer the questions to explore a starting pattern.
Architecture depends on workload, risk, team capability and constraints. Validate assumptions and evaluate a small proof of concept; this is a starting point for your design.
Turn this into a practical decision
- Confirm rate limits and the provider’s event or change-feed contract.
- Handle pagination, duplicates and restart checkpoints.
- Simulate an outage and prove that missed updates are recovered.