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, regardless of whether it's true or not (the pros and cons are well articulated in the article).
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 side).
We think outbound is best served with an opinionated, purpose-built product, as the use case is very specific. The common feedback we got from event producers is that they are all annoyed by the complexity and costs of their current solution for sending webhooks. We think OSS / self-hosted is the solution to that. We drew from our experience handling 100 billion events, but also kept the scope to the table stakes to be highly efficient and simple to operate.
Event destinations' support is also crucial here because it means more efficient delivery with fewer errors, which can drastically reduce the overhead of event delivery.
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, WhatsApp, Gmaps. All existing decent looking watch have atrocious battery life to offer all the health features.
Hookdeck is an infrastructure to consume webhooks reliably. Incoming webhooks are challenging because they require a well-built (and often complex) asynchronous system. We help developers spend less building and troubleshooting issues with their webhooks to focus on their products instead. We offer a complete infrastructure to develop, test, receive, distribute and monitor webhooks and asynchronous events.
If you are looking to be part of an early (funded) team, fully leverage your knowledge & talent, have an impact, and work on hard scaling and concurrency challenges, this might be for you.
We are offering competitive compensation, generous stock options and liberty over your geo & schedule.
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