My webhook catcher's 24-hour expiry taught me that 'ephemeral' is a promise you have to keep with your own memory
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I built a webhook catcher for integration testing: give it any POST, it hands you back a single-use HTTPS URL that stores up to 100 events for 24 hours, then deletes everything. Sounds simple. The operational lesson came from what happened after expiry. The catcher is in-memory by design. No databa…
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- 2026-10-18 15:00 · DEV Community — AI
My webhook catcher's 24-hour expiry taught me that 'ephemeral' is a promise you have to keep with your own memory