Phil Leggetter
@leggetter.co.uk
Empathetic human. Developer Experience and Developer Relations. Web Engineer. 🏡 https://leggetter.co.uk 💼 https://hookdeck.com / @hookdeck.com
Full post has the concrete examples behind each of these - how we chunked a 409KB API reference, what the eval rubric looks like, the Vercel log drain pipeline for measurement. What I actually did, not what I think you should do. hookdeck.com/blog/developer-platform-agent-ready
Phil Leggetter@leggetter.co.uk · 3mo agoI've spent the last few months making Hookdeck work well for AI agents. Wrote up what I actually did as a checklist - seven things I keep coming back to.
I've spent the last few months making Hookdeck work well for AI agents. Wrote up what I actually did as a checklist - seven things I keep coming back to.
If you missed the last #devrelshow, no need to curl up crying in a hot steamy shower as it was recorded 🎉 Watch @leggetter.co.uk from @hookdeck.com discussing all things #devrel and sharing more about designing documentation for humans and agents 🙌 👉 Link to the full episode in reply.
We've launched a managed version of Outpost on today, with a free tier. Add outbound webhooks & event destinations (SQS, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, S3, + more) to your SaaS/API in minutes, without building or running it. On Product Hunt today: www.producthunt.com/products/hoo...
Hookdeck | Reliable webhook infrastructure | Product Hunt
Reliable infrastructure to work with webhooks and external events — without managing it yourself. Two products: Event Gateway for Receiving Webhooks: Handle events from external providers before they...
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Anyone with llms.txt/.md/agent-facing docs knows that client-side tracking doesn’t work (no browser, no JS). Here's what does: Vercel log drains → Hookdeck → PostHog. Who’s reading what, entry/exit paths. Step-by-step setup guide: hookdeck.com/webhooks/pla...
Track AI Agent Traffic to Your Docs with Vercel Log Drains, Hookdeck, and PostHog
Build a server-side analytics pipeline with Vercel Log Drains, Hookdeck, and PostHog to capture every request to your machine-readable docs (.md and llms.txt) and see which AI agents are reading them.
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Come talk Shopify goodness! The next meetup is on 27th Jan in Leeds! We'll have two incredible speakers: @leggetter.co.uk - Reliably Handling Webhook at Hookdeck scale! @twnsnd.com - Optimising Theme Performance taking Liquid on a diet partnersnorthmeetup.uk
Shopify Partners North – Dev Meetup
A regular meetup for Shopify Developers, held in the North of the UK. Discussing themes, APIs, Apps, POS, entrepreneurship and everything in between.
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Excited to share that @fmvilas.me (creator of AsyncAPI) has joined Hookdeck as VP & GM of Outpost. He's leading our mission to standardize event delivery infrastructure through open source and the Event Destinations standard. hookdeck.com/blog/fran-m...
Fran Méndez Joins Hookdeck to Build the Future of Event-Driven Architecture
Fran Méndez announces he has joined Hookdeck as VP & General Manager of Outpost and shares his vision for an event-driven world.
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You can now see Shopify webhook latency in real time. No signup. Live numbers. Webhook or Email alerts when things go sideways. 🔗 hookdeck.com/radar/shopify
Track Shopify Webhook Latency in Real-time - Hookdeck Radar
Stay up-to-date on Shopify webhook performance using Hookdeck's aggregated data from thousands of Shopify app developers and stores.
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Turns out that Wally was an engineer working on event-driven systems in Spain.
Been hands-on with Verdent for a few weeks in early access. Already smoother than I’ve had with Roo Code + Gemini/Claude. Two highlights: 1️⃣ Better overall plan flow 2️⃣ Parallel agents + isolated git worktrees via desktop app Access now open → www.verdent.ai
Verdent AI｜Agentic Coding with Multiple Parallel Agents
Agentic coding suite that combines multiple agent system with AI code review and AI agent orchestration
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Housekeeping will appreciate that. They've only just finished mopping down and repainting after the last guest
A few recent DX LLM-focused updates we've shipped on the Hookdeck docs...
The Hookdeck Event Gateway allows full control over transformation and filter order in your event pipeline. Options include: → Filter or transform first → Cleanup data pre-delivery → Deliver only essential data Available via dashboard UI and API.
Do I get any points for the t-shirt I wore during my recent Stripe Developers London Meetup talk? Does anyone recognize it?
The #Stripe London meetup last night was packed. Over 100 devs, two strong technical talks, and plenty of great questions. Write-up of my talk in the thread 👇
Excited to be speaking at the Stripe London meetup next Tuesday! I’ll be covering best practices for scaling webhook infrastructure and how Hookdeck helps solve the hard parts.
🚀 My guest post for #Stripe Dot Dev is live! How to stay within API rate limits without dropping events - using a "fetch-before-process" pattern for Stripe webhooks. 📖 Dive in: stripe.dev/blog/stay-wi...
Stay within limits: API rate-limit-friendly pattern for Stripe webhooks
Learn how to build a resilient, rate-limit-friendly system for handling Stripe webhooks at scale. This guide explains the fetch-before-process pattern, its risks under high volume, and how to use Hook...
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Ever deployed a feature to production by accident? 😱 This guide shows how to use Hookdeck projects to keep dev, staging, and prod environments rock-solid and isolated. No more unexpected surprises! hookdeck.com/guides/how-... #DevOps
Join @cecilphillip.bsky.social and me tomorrow 👇 #webhooks #webhooks #webhooks 😏
Hookdeck@hookdeck.com · last yr."Reliable #Webhooks with Hookdeck" - #Stripe Dev Office Hours. Set a reminder for tomorrow at 17:00 UTC/13:00 ET/10:00 PT. Available on: 📺 YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3A... 💼 LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/reli...
Outpost v0.2.0 is here! - Publish response now includes event ID; status changed from 200 → 202 (breaking) - Tenant responses updated for 200 or 201 - No need for destination config on Hookdeck creation - New Go, TypeScript, Python SDKs - New SDK docs and examples
Webhooks are everywhere — but they're fragile and inconsistent. I spoke with @leggetter.co.uk from @hookdeck.com about Event Destinations, a new initiative to modernize event delivery. More on @nordicapis.bsky.social. nordicapis.com/event-destin...
Event Destinations: A Better Way to Deliver Webhooks | Nordic APIs |
Event Destinations offers a better developer experience for webhooks by rethinking how events are routed and consumed.
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#apidaysnyc day 2. I'm starting (a little late) with @swiber.dev: Why MCP needs APIs (and vice versa)
Slides and resources from my talk at #apidaysnyc, Beyond webhooks: the future of scalable API event delivery noti.st/leggetter/PB... #apidays
Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery by Phil Leggetter
Since Jeff Lindsay introduced webhooks in 2007, they’ve become the default mechanism for delivering API platform events to consuming applications. But as adoption has surged and event-driven systems h...
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I enjoyed sitting down with Michael on this one. Very insightful. If you have an outbound events story I'd love to speak with you and help share it. Are you at #apidaysnyc? Please give me a shout.
Hookdeck@hookdeck.com · last yr.Creating scalable, reliable outbound webhook infrastructure is tough. We're launching interviews with senior engineers to explore their strategies. First up: Michael Woodward from paddle.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r1...
