Running Webhook Gateways at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers and Wasm
Webhooks drive event-driven workflows, but routing every incoming request to a central origin wastes capacity on invalid traffic and exposes shared resources to floods. The article proposes moving signature checks, payload validation, and tenant routing onto Cloudflare Workers, optionally with WebAssembly, so bad requests are dropped at the edge. Valid events can then be acknowledged quickly and passed to a durable queue for asynchronous processing by the origin. The piece also covers the architecture and code involved, along with platform limits and provider-specific signature schemes such as Stripe's and GitHub's HMAC-based approaches.
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