Webhooks Build vs. Buy
Make an informed decision about your webhook infrastructure
Developers Needed
Focus your scarce engineering resources on product innovation and solving business challenges. When your team is tied up reinventing the wheel on complex infrastructure, you face significant opportunity costs, miss out on revenue-generating opportunities, and add additional risk to the business.
- 1-2
- Build
- 3-5
Time to Market
Building a reliable and secure system in-house takes significant time and resources, delaying your ability to deliver value. With Svix, you can achieve a faster time-to-market with an enterprise-grade solution, allowing you to capture opportunities quickly, avoid revenue loss from delays, and stay competitive.
- Days to weeks
- Build
- 6-12 months
Ongoing Maintenance
Frees up internal resources to focus on core product development, boosting productivity and morale.
- Dedicated support team, 24/7 on call engineer, ready-to-help expertise, and no operational burden for your team.
- Build
- Ongoing infrastructure maintenance, troubleshooting, customer bug reports, and a webhooks related backlog.
Cost
Lowers total cost of ownership and provides better cost predictability as your platform scales.
- Predictable pricing model with reduced operational expenses.
- Build
- High upfront and ongoing costs for development, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps resources.
Reliability
Reliable webhook delivery is about more than just sending messages—it requires retries, durable queues, global scalability, and fail-safes, which take time and effort to build. With Svix, you skip the complexity and get hands-off reliability.
- 99.999% uptime SLA
- Build
- Webhooks systems come with unique monitoring, maintenance, and reliability challenges.
Self-Serve Webhooks Portal
Empowers customers to manage webhooks independently, reducing support requests. Advanced monitoring, payload transformations, and expanded use cases enhance extensibility and create a seamless integration experience.
- Embed a state-of-the-art, fully customizable webhooks portal with just one line of code.
- Build
- Build your own scalable log storage, as well as a fully-featured and user-friendly UI.
Event Retries and Durability
Ensures reliable message delivery even when endpoints fail, improving customer trust and experience.
- Built-in retries with robust durability and configurable retry policies.
- Build
- Requires implementing retry logic, exponential backoff, dead-letter queues, and message deduplication.
Replays
Allows customers to recover missed events, reducing friction and ensuring operational continuity.
- Easy-to-use replay functionality with delivery logs and endpoint-specific replays.
- Build
- Many builds have basic replay functionality which degrades customer experience.
Security
Protects your platform and customer data, reducing the risk of security breaches and compliance issues.
- End-to-end security, including HMAC signing, static IPs, and advanced webhook authentication.
- Build
- Webhooks come with unique security challenges (like SSRF) which need to be addressed.
Monitoring & Observability
Improve customer satisfaction by providing your customers with real-time visibility into issues. This allows them to troubleshoot fast on their own instead of relying on your support and engineering team to debug every issue.
- Prebuilt monitoring tools, detailed logs, metrics, and Open Telemetry for webhook performance.
- Build
- Need to monitor queues, background workers, backpressure, latency, and noisy-neighbor.
Scaling Infrastructure
Prevents downtime and bottlenecks, supporting seamless growth and high-volume demands.
- Auto-scalable infrastructure that handles millions of webhook events per day.
- Build
- Have to build cost-efficient delivery systems that maintain low latency and high throughput for growing or spiky webhook traffic.
Advanced Functionality
Enables customers to tailor webhook events to their needs, enhancing usability and adoption. This also helps reduce your costs.
- Flexible filtering, routing, and event customization are natively supported.
- Build
- Routing, transformations, and webhook authentication methods all need to be built in-house.
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