Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 05/05/2026Full 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 050
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 05/05/2026I'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. 100
Reposted by Phil LeggetterFrédéric Harper @fharper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026If 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. 111
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 23/04/2026We'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...producthunt.comHookdeck | Reliable webhook infrastructure | Product HuntReliable 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... 000
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 18/02/2026Anyone 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...hookdeck.comTrack AI Agent Traffic to Your Docs with Vercel Log Drains, Hookdeck, and PostHogBuild 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. 011
Reposted by Phil LeggetterJordanFinners @jordanfinners.dev · 12/01/2026Come 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.ukpartnersnorthmeetup.ukShopify Partners North – Dev MeetupA regular meetup for Shopify Developers, held in the North of the UK. Discussing themes, APIs, Apps, POS, entrepreneurship and everything in between. 142
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 20/11/2025Excited 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...hookdeck.comFran Méndez Joins Hookdeck to Build the Future of Event-Driven ArchitectureFran Méndez announces he has joined Hookdeck as VP & General Manager of Outpost and shares his vision for an event-driven world. 073
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 06/11/2025You can now see Shopify webhook latency in real time. No signup. Live numbers. Webhook or Email alerts when things go sideways. 🔗 hookdeck.com/radar/shopifyhookdeck.comTrack Shopify Webhook Latency in Real-time - Hookdeck RadarStay up-to-date on Shopify webhook performance using Hookdeck's aggregated data from thousands of Shopify app developers and stores. 020
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 14/10/2025. @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social kicking off #platformsummit25 051
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 10/10/2025Turns out that Wally was an engineer working on event-driven systems in Spain. 250
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 23/09/2025Been 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.aiverdent.aiVerdent AI|Agentic Coding with Multiple Parallel AgentsAgentic coding suite that combines multiple agent system with AI code review and AI agent orchestration 100
Reposted by Phil LeggetterChris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Housekeeping will appreciate that. They've only just finished mopping down and repainting after the last guest 011
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 11/08/2025A few recent DX LLM-focused updates we've shipped on the Hookdeck docs... 110
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 29/07/2025See the blog for examples: hookdeck.com/blog/transf... 021
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 29/07/2025The 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. 122
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 18/07/2025Do I get any points for the t-shirt I wore during my recent Stripe Developers London Meetup talk? Does anyone recognize it? 110
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 16/07/2025The #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 👇 110
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 11/07/2025Excited 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. 110
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 04/07/2025🚀 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...stripe.devStay within limits: API rate-limit-friendly pattern for Stripe webhooksLearn 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... 000
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 26/06/2025Ever 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 011
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 20/05/2025Join @cecilphillip.bsky.social and me tomorrow 👇 #webhooks #webhooks #webhooks 😏 001
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 20/05/2025Outpost 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 121
Reposted by Phil LeggetterBill Doerrfeld @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Webhooks 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...nordicapis.comEvent 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. 032
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 15/05/2025Celebrating the end of #apidaysnyc with a beer ON the Hudson River. 010
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 15/05/2025#apidaysnyc day 2. I'm starting (a little late) with @swiber.dev: Why MCP needs APIs (and vice versa) 020
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 14/05/2025Slides and resources from my talk at #apidaysnyc, Beyond webhooks: the future of scalable API event delivery noti.st/leggetter/PB... #apidaysnoti.stBeyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery by Phil LeggetterSince 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... 000
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 14/05/2025I 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. 000
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 06/05/2025I’ve been working on Outpost over the past few months, and I’m excited we've achieved the beta release milestone 🎉 Outpost is built to simplify how platforms deliver events—not just with webhooks, but directly to queues, streams, and beyond. 120
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 03/04/2025Introducing the Hookdeck Publish API - simplifying sending webhooks with Hookdeck. 132
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 01/04/2025After watching @martyndavies.me and Josh from @zuplo.com discuss MCPs, seeing Zapier's release of Zapier #MCP, and reading two suggestions (a16z & @addyosmani.bsky.social) that there may be such a thing as an "MCP Gateway", I thought I'd do some research and write up my findings on the MCP Gateway. 120
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 28/03/2025An open-source implementation of Event Destinations. Coming soon... 011
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 18/03/2025March 2025 Update New Hookdeck features: - Simplified webhook setup with Source Types - Integrated incident management via PagerDuty - Improved event discoverability by removing the HTTP/CLI view 111
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 06/03/2025@github.com Stars ⭐ to @posthog.com 🦔 via @hookdeck.com 🪝 github.com/leggetter/gi...github.comGitHub - leggetter/github-stars-to-posthog: Send GitHub Star webhook events to PostHog via HookdeckSend GitHub Star webhook events to PostHog via Hookdeck - leggetter/github-stars-to-posthog 000
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 06/03/2025Introducing Hookdeck Source Types ⚙️ Simplified config for faster setup: Only relevant webhook provider options, reducing errors 🔑 Emphasis on critical settings: Highlights config like Zoom's mandatory secret 🚀 Foundation for more integrations: Prep for destination types like AWS Lambda & Amazon S3 131
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 28/02/2025After a tough week where I feel I've put in a lot of effort for less ROI than I'd hoped for, it's time to disappear into the living lands for a while. #avowed 020
Reposted by Phil LeggetterHookdeck @hookdeck.com · 28/02/2025Using Hookdeck to reliably ingest and deliver webhooks. 001
Reposted by Phil LeggetterPhil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 28/02/2025Join me on the #PagerDuty Partner Spotlight livestream featuring Hookdeck on March 4th and try to stop me YOLO pushing my webhook endpoint changes to PROD. youtu.be/6qt1wqQZj-0youtu.beJoin the PagerDuty Partner Spotlight livestream featuring HookdeckYouTube video by Hookdeck 101
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 28/02/2025Join me on the #PagerDuty Partner Spotlight livestream featuring Hookdeck on March 4th and try to stop me YOLO pushing my webhook endpoint changes to PROD. youtu.be/6qt1wqQZj-0youtu.beJoin the PagerDuty Partner Spotlight livestream featuring HookdeckYouTube video by Hookdeck 101
Reposted by Phil LeggetterAPI Evangelist @apievangelist.com · 26/02/2025thenewstack.ioEvent Destinations: A Faster Alternative to WebhooksEvent Destinations is a set of guidelines outlining a new pattern for triggering events without webhooks. Here's how it helps developers. 1168
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 27/02/2025 We’ve just launched eventdestinations.orgeventdestinations.orgEvent Destinations InitiativeA model for event interoperability between event producers and their consumers to favor better developer experience, robust integration, and infrastructural efficiency 101
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 25/02/2025It's a couple of months off, but this is something I'm pretty excited about 🎓 100