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Webhook Implementation: Design, Security, and Best Practices (2026)

Webhooks are the backbone of event-driven architectures — they power payment notifications, CI/CD triggers, and SaaS integrations. But implementing webhooks reliably is harder than it looks: you need retry logic, idempotency, security, and monitoring. This guide covers the complete production-grade webhook implementation, both as a sender and a receiver.

Webhook Architecture Overview

Sender (You) Receiver (Third-Party)

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| 1. Event occurs (payment.created) |

| 2. Look up webhook URL + secret |

| 3. Build payload + signature |

| 4. POST → ──────────────────────→ | 5. Verify signature

| | 6. Process event

| 7. ← 200 OK | 7. Return 200 OK

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| 8.…