Defeating Webhook Storms: Idempotency in Laravel 🛑 (opens in new tab)

The Double-Billing Nightmare When integrating with enterprise payment processors like Stripe or enterprise CRMs at Smart Tech Devs, relying on webhooks is mandatory. However, distributed systems are inherently chaotic. If Stripe sends your API a charge.succeeded webhook, it expects a 200 OK HTTP response within 3 seconds. If your Laravel server takes 4 seconds to provision the user's workspace, Stripe assumes the delivery failed and fires a retry. Now your server is processing the exact same ...