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Svix Blog
Company blog · svix.com/blog · on HN as tasnprogrammingweb
Svix Blog is the company blog at svix.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Svix – Webhooks as a Service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly name Svix as a webhook service when comparing alternatives, and some link its blog, such as a post on heap fragmentation in Rust applications. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Svix is the enterprise-ready webhook platform delivering billions of webhooks every month for fast-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies including Brex, Benchling, and Drata. Send and receive webhooks at scale with retries, signature verification, and a managed dashboard.
Most-linked posts?
- Svix – Webhooks as a Service5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-08-05
- Spotting and Avoiding Heap Fragmentation in Rust Applications3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-17
- Avoiding Bugs with Strong Static Typing Using Rust2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-14
- Common Webhook Signatures Failure Modes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-05
- Designing a Scalable Webhook Architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-19
- Common HTTP Implementations Quirks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-06
- You Can't Guarantee Webhook Ordering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-03
What Hacker News says?
That's exactly why we built Svix[1]. Building webhooks services, even with amazing tools like FastAPI, Celery and Redis is still a big pain. So we just built a product to solve it. Hatchet looks cool nonetheless. Queues are a pain for many other use-cases too. 1: https://www.svix.com
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted You Can't Guarantee Webhook Ordering as a story · 57 points
HN discussionThese reasons are exactly why we started Svix[1] (we do webhooks as a service). I wish we existed to serve you guys back when you started working on it. :) [1] https://www.svix.com
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on “Give me /events, not webhooks”Submitted Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on as a story · 45 points
HN discussionWe created Svix Play that gives the Stripe CLI experience to everyone for free: https://www.svix.com/play/
Comment linking /play/
on “Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling”Submitted Webhooks Are Harder Than They Seem as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI recorded a video with advice about designing a webhooks system a couple of months ago: https://www.svix.com/blog/webhook-architecture-design/ It's high level, so it doesn't touch everything you mentioned, but it's a good primer.
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on “Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks”Submitted Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless plug: we make it super easy for companies to send webhooks. https://www.svix.com There are only 3 companies on webhooks.fyi's list with 3 green checks, and we're powering webhooks for one of those. :)
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on “Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks”Submitted Why Postgres FDW Made My Queries Slow (and How I Fixed It) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe built Svix[1] exactly for this reason. We make it super easy for companies to send webhooks reliably. There are only three companies with a "perfect score" on webhooks.fyi's list, we power one of them. ;) [1] https://www.svix.com
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on “Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks”Submitted Common Webhook Signatures Failure Modes as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto. We are hiring for Rust engineers. Not crypto. :) https://www.svix.com/careers/
Comment linking /careers/
on “Why Rust?”Submitted Svix – Webhooks as a Service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is something I thought about a lot before switching to Rust at Svix[0]. What I came to realize though, that there are no "casts to any and move on", but rather there are silencing real bugs and praying you won't hit them. Almost every time I've ever tried to silence the type checker (in any other language) it resulted in a bug. Does it make you slower? Definitely at times, but it's mostly OK, and the code is pr…
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on “Announcing Actix Web v4.0”Submitted Why MTLS Is Not Recommended for Webhook Authentication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPing me at tom @ our domain (or see my profile), or come to our slack: https://www.svix.com/slack/ We would be happy to help you set it up!
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on “Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust”Submitted How ChatGPT MCP Events Work (It's Webhooks) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey should defo use Svix[1], I'll reach out to the blog author, this looks like a cool blog post and use-case. 1: https://www.svix.com
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on “Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream”Submitted The Future Is Event-Driven as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood utilization of the type system really makes a difference. I wrote a similar blog post a while back: https://www.svix.com/blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on/
Comment linking /blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on/
on “How types make hard problems easy”Submitted You Don't Need an iFrame Resizing Library as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> As the popular saying goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science: caching, off-by-one errors, and getting a Rust job that isn't cryptocurrency-related. For whatever it's worth, we are hiring for a non cryptocurrency Rust job, haha. https://www.svix.com/careers/
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on “Request Coalescing in Async Rust”Submitted Row Level Security: Defense in Depth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you all connected with https://www.svix.com/ ?
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on “Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks”Submitted Preventing Invalid Database Access at Compile Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou don't need a queue to protect from Svix downtime. It can be as simple as logging failures to svix (when they happen), and replaying these events. Though as I said elsewhere, this scenario is something you'd need to deal with Twilio and SendGrid too. As for what this service does that is not basically a curl loop with an error check: see the rest of the comments. People chimed him from their experience better tha…
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on “Launch HN: Svix (YC W21) – Webhooks as a Service”Submitted State of Webhooks Report 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me a bit of a post my colleague wrote a while back: https://www.svix.com/blog/heap-fragmentation-in-rust-applica...
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on “Rust: Investigating an Out of Memory Error”Submitted Avoiding Bugs with Strong Static Typing Using Rust as a story · 2 points
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