Today’s post is Introduction to Webhooks. What they are and where you can use them. They are not new, been there for a while. The usage is increasing day by day.
Introduction
The simplest definition, I can give you is : Webhooks are HTTP callbacks. Really… that’s it ???? Yes it’s that simple. If you use github , you might have noticed a text box for github webhook. You put your URL where you can capture a request and you should be able to get an update on that URL when there is an update in the code page. You can compare to this as push notifications. It’s a very interesting future in webservice integrations. You don’t have to setup poll intervals in your integrations to get an update from another system.
Use Case
I can think of some of the common use cases here :
- We can get updates in real time from order management system or any other system for that matter when a record is insert or Updated. We do not have to fire a request explicitly.
- Your application can get an update when there is a specific tag in your tweeter handler.
- Your github can send you a notification when someone makes and push code.
- You can automate your deployments in a way that the code will get deployed in production if there is a specific status of the repository you are working with
- Your order management system has an update in the order status, your salesforce record will get a notification and update the status as well in the system.
- and so on…
Possibilities are cases are uncountable
What Next ?
If you just got to know about webhooks, this is just an Introduction to Webhooks ,so you can refer to below resources to know more about this in details.
- A nice video, which will give you good idea about the stuff.
Embeded version :
Using Web Hooks from Jeff Lindsay on Vimeo.
2. You can read more about this in the below link.
https://webhooks.pbworks.com/w/page/13385124/FrontPage
3. What people are discussing about ?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webhooks
Conclusion
Here I will stop for Introduction to Webhooks. Will come soon with a Salesforce related example with it and how we can leverage this for our automatons. Till then… bye bye…
Keep reading and sharing….
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