Build Week #1, Day 1:
Reliable Stripe webhooks processing

Processing webhooks reliably in the background

Integrating with third-party APIs like Stripe often involves receiving pushed updates via webhooks for events like subscription updates, payment updates and more.

Such webhooks are often triggered by organic end-user behavior or recurring automated systems, resulting in spikes. For this reason, it is recommended to move the processing of webhooks to the background, to avoid any performance degradation on your main API or application.

As covered in our Stripe guide, dealing with webhooks comes with many challenges:

• The order of webhooks is not guaranteed (e.g., a subscription update can arrive before its creation)
• The endpoint receiving the webhooks needs to respond quickly (e.g., you should acknowledge a webhook before acting on it to avoid unnecessary retries from Stripe)

Fortunately, Defer provides multiple features to tackle those specificities.

Deploy a Stripe demo on Vercel and Defer in under 2 minutes

We are happy to open our first Build Week with a complete Stripe x Defer Next.js template. Get started on the template's README.