Use cases for Inbox

When to and When not to use Inbox Process

Use Inbox Process when

• You care about data integrity.

• Receiving & processing your webhook requests uniquely/exactly-once.

• Receiving & processing your webhook requests in ORDER.

• Your 3rd-party service doesn't want specific responses, simply 200 OK is enough

  • e.g.: you have to run some biz logic and then return the response.

Avoid using the Inbox Process when

• You don't care about the ordering of the webhook requests, it can be YOLO-ordering 😌.

• You have to do some biz logic and then specific responses to your 3rd-party service.

  • For this, you might need to implement your own Idempotency layer.

• You want high throughput (use Queue for that)