I am adding another building block to my webhooks research out of Github. As I continue this work, it is clear that Gthub will continue to play a significant role in my webhook research and storytelling, because they seem to be the most advanced when it comes to orchestration via API and webhooks. I’m guessing this is a by-product of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD), which Github is at the heart of. The API platforms that have embraced automation and orchestration as part of what they do, always have the most advanced webhook implementations and provide the best examples of webhooks in action, which we can all consider as part of our operations.
Today’s webhook building block is the ping event. “When you create a new webhook, we’ll send you a simple ping event to let you know you’ve set up the webhook correctly. This event isn’t stored so it isn’t retrievable via the Events API. You can trigger a ping again by calling the ping endpoint.” A pretty simple, but handy features when it comes to getting up and going with webhooks, making sure everything is working properly out of the gate–something that clearly comes from experience, and listening to the problems your consumers are encountering. https://goo.gl/i3Y8Lh #DataIntegration #ML
