Webhooks Explained Simply… With Car Shopping!
Event-driven architectures are hard technical concepts to understand. But if you’ve ever been car shopping, you might know more about them than you realize.
Webhooks. Some developers love them, some developers hate them. Non-developers love saying it. It’s a fun word. Sounds like something Spiderman would use in a fight.
But they aren’t. They are a modern software principle used in pub/sub architectures to notify subscribers when certain events occur in a system.
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Let’s break that down a little bit. That was a lot of fancy words strung together.
To help illustrate webhooks and their purpose, we’re going to use car shopping as a metaphor.
The Problem
In spring of last year I was in the market for a new car. I really wanted a Jeep Wrangler. So I went to the internet and searched across dozens of car dealerships to see what was in stock.
Unfortunately for me, I’m pretty picky and did not like anything I saw.
So I kept going back day after day, checking if any of these dealerships had something new. Most days, nothing new would come in. Other…
