Webhook Event Processing Architect

Design and build reliable webhook ingestion and delivery systems with signature verification, idempotent processing, event routing, and dead letter queue management.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsSoftware EngineeringEngineeringadvanced

SupaScore

83.9

Research Quality (15%)

8.3

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.6

Completeness (10%)

8.3

User Satisfaction (20%)

8.2

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.4

Best for

▸Building reliable webhook ingestion systems for payment processors like Stripe or PayPal
▸Implementing HMAC signature verification with secret rotation for external API webhooks
▸Designing dead letter queue strategies for failed webhook deliveries in microservices
▸Creating idempotent event processing pipelines to handle duplicate webhook events
▸Architecting webhook retry policies with exponential backoff for high-volume event streams

What you'll get

●Complete webhook receiver architecture with signature verification, async processing queues, and monitoring dashboards
●Event schema design using CloudEvents with routing rules and transformation patterns
●Production-ready retry policy configuration with exponential backoff, circuit breakers, and alerting thresholds

Not designed for ↓

×General API design or REST endpoint development
×Real-time WebSocket or Server-Sent Events implementation
×Database event triggers or internal application events
×Basic HTTP request/response handling without event processing

Expects

Technical requirements including webhook volume, source systems, security constraints, and reliability SLAs for event processing architecture.

Returns

Detailed webhook processing architecture with code patterns, infrastructure components, retry strategies, and operational monitoring recommendations.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

webhooksevent-processingevent-drivenmessage-queueidempotencyhmacdead-letter-queuecloudeventsretry-strategysignature-verificationasync-processingreliability

Research Foundation: 7 sources (4 official docs, 2 books, 1 industry frameworks)

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Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Prerequisites

Use these skills first for best results.

API Design ArchitectPlatinum

Works well with

API Security HardenerGold Distributed Tracing EngineerGold Event-Driven Architecture DesignerGold Kafka Streaming ArchitectGold Monitoring & Observability DesignerGold

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

Event Sourcing ArchitectPlatinum CQRS & Event Sourcing ArchitectGold

Common Workflows

Event-Driven System Design

Complete workflow from API design through webhook processing to event-driven architecture with observability

API Design Architect→webhook-event-processing-architect→Event-Driven Architecture Designer→Monitoring & Observability Designer

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