--- title: Why Your Product Needs Webhooks | daily.dev description: Webhooks let APIs push real-time event notifications to applications instead of forcing clients to repeatedly poll for updates. Benefits include easy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-product-needs-webhooks-niip0hwfo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Your Product Needs Webhooks | daily.dev og:description: Webhooks let APIs push real-time event notifications to applications instead of forcing clients to repeatedly poll for updates. Benefits include easy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-product-needs-webhooks-niip0hwfo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nIIp0hWFO.png og:image:alt: Why Your Product Needs Webhooks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Your Product Needs Webhooks **[Svix Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/svix)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Webhooks let APIs push real-time event notifications to applications instead of forcing clients to repeatedly poll for updates. Benefits include easy integration with no-code platforms like Zapier and Make, lower resource usage for both provider and consumer, true real-time updates without rate-limit issues, better developer and customer experience, and growing developer expectations set by providers like Stripe and Plaid. Implementing webhooks at scale is hard due to retry logic, deliverability monitoring, security concerns like SSRF and replay attacks, and the need for authentication and debugging tools. Hosted and open source solutions such as Svix aim to simplify building a reliable webhook system. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of API polling requests actually find new data? Only about 1.5% of polling requests find an update, according to Zapier's estimates. This means a webhook-based approach can replace roughly 1,000 polling requests per second with as few as 15 responses per second, using less than 1% of the resources required by a comparable polling system. _Teams weighing webhooks against polling can track real-world API design tradeoffs on daily.dev._ ### Do developers prefer webhooks or API polling for integrations? Developers strongly prefer webhooks: a poll conducted by Wufoo (now part of SurveyMonkey) found that 82% of developers preferred working with webhooks over API polling. Major API providers like Stripe and Plaid already offer well-documented webhook features, reinforcing webhooks as the expected integration pattern. _daily.dev helps developers keep up with API integration patterns like this one._ ### What are the main technical challenges in building a reliable webhook system at scale? Building webhooks at scale is hard because of unreliable user endpoints requiring automatic retries, the need to monitor deliverability and alert customers about broken endpoints, security risks such as server-side request forgery (SSRF) and replay attacks, event authentication to verify origin, and providing a UI for users to test and debug their webhook implementations. _Engineers designing resilient event delivery systems can follow this kind of architecture guidance on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The valley of webhooks](https://daily.dev/posts/the-valley-of-webhooks-6ekxclvor) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Webhook vs API: The Difference That Finally Clicked for Me](https://daily.dev/posts/webhook-vs-api-the-difference-that-finally-clicked-for-me-cjwanwunj) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What Is a Webhook? 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