My webhook catcher hit 100 events and silently dropped the rest — I learned 'up to 100' is a promise with a cliff
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I built a webhook catcher for integration testing: give it a POST, get back an HTTPS URL that stores events for 24 hours, read them back when ready. Simple. The spec said 'stores up to 100 events.' I implemented a ring buffer and moved on. Then a Stripe test suite fired 112 webhooks in a burst — su…
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- 2026-10-19 03:01 · DEV Community — AI
My webhook catcher hit 100 events and silently dropped the rest — I learned 'up to 100' is a promise with a cliff