Stay within limits: API rate-limit-friendly pattern for Stripe webhooks
Jul 3, 2025
Summary
This post introduces a rate-limit-friendly pattern for handling Stripe webhooks, specifically the 'fetch-before-process' pattern. It details the risks associated with this pattern under high volume and explains how to use Hookdeck to queue and throttle webhooks to avoid exceeding Stripe API limits, ensuring reliable processing.
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