Webhooks and Event-Driven APIs With PayPal

Ian welcomes software engineer from PayPal, Swapnil Sapar, to this week's stream. Follow along as they create webhooks to listen for specific events and explore event-driven APIs.

00:00 - Introductions
04:45 - In Case You Missed It
07:05 - What are webhooks and event-driven development, and how are they used in every day technology practice?
18:20 - Questions from chat comparing webhooks to other technologies, and discussing event retry and resilience
31:23 - Getting started with Postman and PayPal's API (link below)
33:40 - Register a webhook with PayPal, telling PayPal where to send events
37:55 - Making a webhook receiver/listener at requestbin, and adding it to the PayPal call to register to receive events
43:00 - Discussing security and best practices about securing and verifying webhook events
46:40 - Causing an event from the Postman collection and catching the event
55:11 - Examining webhook events received for a catalog addition event, and seeing the headers that would verify verification back to PayPal
59:40 - Creating a webhook listener in Postman, instead of requestbin
1:18:10 - 30 Days of Postman challenge
1:21:55 - Community Shout-outs

Helpful links and Resources:
- day 29 of the 30-day challenge uses webhooks

[nimishamohanan]

how to verify webhook with webhook-signature endpoint, because i didnt get the success response from the end point, i get the null response.