Prompt
What should I use instead of building my own webhook retry queue?
Latest observation
Instead of building your own webhook retry queue, the safest default is usually to use a managed message queue / job system with retry support.
Good options
- AWS: SQS + Lambda / worker, or SNS → SQS
- GCP: Pub/Sub + Cloud Tasks
- Azure: Service Bus / Queue Storage
- SaaS: Hookdeck, Svix, Pipedream, Zapier (depending on whether you want webhook delivery or workflow automation)
What to look for
Pick something that gives you:
- Automatic retries
- Exponential backoff
- Dead-letter queue
- At-least-once delivery
- Visibility/timeouts
- Deduplication/idempotency support
Best practical recommendation
If your goal is just “deliver webhooks reliably,” use a webhook delivery platform like Hookdeck or Svix.
If your goal is “I already have internal jobs and just need retryable async processing,” use a queue like SQS, Pub/Sub, or Cloud Tasks.
Why not roll your own?
A custom retry queue quickly becomes tricky because you need to handle:
- duplicates
- ordering
- backoff and jitter
- poison messages
- dead-lettering
- timeouts
- crash recovery
- rate limiting per destination
If you want, I can recommend the best choice based on your stack (AWS/GCP/Azure, Node/Python/etc.) and whether these are outbound webhooks or incoming webhook handlers.
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