# Building Webhooks That Never Fail: Our Journey to 99.99%+ Delivery Reliability

> Learn how Dodo Payments built a highly reliable webhook infrastructure. We share technical insights on achieving 99.99% delivery for SaaS billing events.

- **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/videos/building-webhooks-that-never-fail
- **Video**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5fJKsbnKdk

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Webhooks are the backbone of modern payment integration, but they are notoriously difficult to get right. At Dodo Payments, we set out to build a system that guarantees 99.99% delivery reliability. This technical deep dive explains the architecture behind our webhook infrastructure. We discuss the challenges of distributed systems, retry logic, and ensuring idempotency across millions of events.

Our journey involved moving beyond simple HTTP requests to a more robust event-driven model. We share the lessons learned from handling high-concurrency traffic and preventing data loss during network outages. You'll learn about the queuing mechanisms we use to buffer events and the monitoring tools that keep our system healthy. This video is essential for developers who want to understand the engineering required for mission-critical SaaS billing.

Reliable webhooks mean fewer support tickets and a better experience for your users. We also cover how we handle security, including signature verification and IP allowlisting. By sharing our internal processes, we hope to help other teams build more resilient integrations. Dodo Payments is committed to providing the most dependable infrastructure for global commerce, and our webhook system is a testament to that goal.