alexbouchard

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by alexbouchard 1y ago
Some do; Gitlab, Otka, and Pipedrive come to mind. I think this is more about the expectations set over the last decade. If you do things differently, there's a need to justify it, and it's just perceived as less secure, regardles
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by alexbouchard 1y ago
I expect to have to answer that question a lot! Hookdeck is an event gateway, an unopinionated event log/message bus that operates over HTTP. It can be used to send webhooks, but 80%+ of use cases are for inbound webhooks (consumer sid
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Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations(github.com)
67 points by alexbouchard 1y ago|8 comments
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by alexbouchard 2y ago
From most watch market positioning I'd assume this to be true. However for me it's the exact opposite, the watch is a tool to cut phone use. All I care about is LTE and the minimum I need to get around the world. SMS, calls, Whats
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by alexbouchard 2y ago
Been looking for something like this! Doc search just hasn't kept up with what's possible now and is such a hassle to get the indexing to work properly. Will try it out!
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by alexbouchard 3y ago
The push queue model has major benefits has you mentioned. We've built Hookdeck (hookdeck.com) on that premise. I hope we see more projects adopt it.
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by alexbouchard 3y ago
Yes and then format it back to JSON
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by alexbouchard 3y ago
YAML is just as effective at communicating data structure to the model while using ~50% less tokens. I now convert all my JSON to YAML before feeding it to GPT API's
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by alexbouchard 4y ago
Hookdeck ( https://hookdeck.com ) | Product Eng, Growth Eng, Backend Eng | Full-Time | Remote (World) Hookdeck is an infrastructure to consume webhooks simply & reliably. Incoming webhooks are challenging because they require
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by alexbouchard 4y ago
Hookdeck ( https://hookdeck.com ) | Backend Eng, SRE, Product (Fullstack) Eng, Product Designer | Full-Time | Remote (World) Hookdeck is an infrastructure to consume webhooks reliably. Incoming webhooks are challenging because the
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
PH takes much more work and strategy but "success" is somewhat deterministic if you did your homework. In our case we saw similar uptake, signups and conversion then ~20h on HN front page over the course of a week. PH had a much h
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
That's right. In the context of pushed events, you have very little margin for error. It's definitely "solvable," but a bit part of the problem is that for most tech teams, it's not their bread and butter. Handling
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I'm all for /events and appreciate the platforms with good support. However, we live in a world where people build event-driven and serverless architecture. The use cases go beyond replication, and webhooks are here to stay. The t
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Hookdeck ( https://hookdeck.com ) | Backend Eng, SRE, Product Eng, Dev Rel | Full-Time | Remote (World) Hookdeck is an infrastructure to consume webhooks simply & reliably. Incoming webhooks are challenging because they requir
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Exactly, 6% of GPD is shockingly low cost to pay for net 0 annual growth in CO2. Now that doesn't mean you can practically deploy that capital but it makes me more bullish on carbon removal.
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Hookdeck | https://hookdeck.com | Remote (Canada) | SRE & Backend Eng Hookdeck is looking for a backend and reliability engineer to improve Hookdeck core platform and infrastructure. We are a small team of 3 operating comple
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
We've been getting that request frequently. So much so that it has jump to the top of our roadmap. How of curiosity, what would you use it for?
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
We emailed back and forth but haven't had the chance to talk yet. Looking forward to it!
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Sweet! For payment and billing related webhooks, the total count of events tends to be relatively low. I can't help with an estimate per se without more context, but the team plans allow for 5 million webhooks, and the overage is 5$ pe
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Hey! Yes we do, you can either verify the webhooks yourself as you normally would (we do not alter the payload, usual verification will work) or have Hookdeck verify the signature and resign it with a Hookdeck signature associated with your
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
It boils down to the number of dependencies you have and the uptime of those dependencies. For instance, you'll need to write to some form of temporary or permanent storage like SQS, S3 or PG. What happens when this is down, or you&#x2
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
We don’t have a public SLA right now but work with customers directly to establish one that makes sense for both. That being said, check out this blog post https://hookdeck.com/blog-posts/hookdecks-approach-to-reliab...
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Rundeck, but a quick google search makes me think it's a very different tool. Technical teams use Hookdeck to receive webhooks reliably. However, Hookdeck itself makes no assumption about what those webhooks
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
That's exactly it
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Fair point! Honestly, I would have assumed the same. Our largest MRR contributor is the team plan right now, but in terms of total count of plans, it’s the individual by about a factor of 2. It would be very hard to build a business of the
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
That's a good idea, we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code (which could just be a lamda uploading to S3, etc.) but directly integrating with some services is definitely possible. We just want to be careful
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Hey, Alex here. I'm excited to share Hookdeck along with my co-founders Eric and Maurice. It's a product we started working on after dealing with my fair share of webhook-related issues (missed webhooks, time-consuming troubleshoo
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Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks(hookdeck.com)
126 points by alexbouchard 5y ago|31 comments
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Can you reach out to me, I'd love to talk about your use case and prioritize accordingly. Email is alex at hookdeck dot com
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by alexbouchard 5y ago
Transformations is something we haven't built yet but we have our eyes on it as your are not the first one to bring that up. You can use Hookdeck in front of lamda and to the transformation there, you'd still get the benefit of as

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