you need to understand webhooks to be a backend developer!

Webhooks are essential for modern backend development as applications increasingly rely on third-party services. Instead of constantly polling external services like Stripe for updates, webhooks allow these services to push data to your application in real-time through HTTP POST requests. This eliminates wasted requests, reduces delays, and enables immediate responses to events like payment confirmations. Webhooks are simply HTTP requests where the external service defines the API contract and payload structure.