Idempotent Webhook Handling and Audited Recovery for Logistics Shipment Events
A design proposal describes how a logistics webhook consumer can process shipment status events exactly once during outages. Each request is authenticated and bound to a tenant before any deduplication occurs, so unauthorized senders cannot reserve event IDs. Deduplication relies on a database uniqueness constraint over the authenticated source, tenant, and event ID, with the deduplication record, shipment update, and audit entry committed in one transaction before acknowledgement. The author notes that a preliminary lookup is insufficient under concurrency, since the constraint must decide which of two simultaneous deliveries proceeds. The approach does not make remote side effects transactional or guarantee delivery order, and a failed database write must withhold success acknowledgement.
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