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Performance testing GOV.UK Pay’s webhooks mechanism

Posted by: James Peacock - Developer, GOV.UK Pay, Posted on: 11 July 2023 - Categories: GOV.UK Pay, Posts for Tech Specialists
Sequence diagram showing the interactions between the Webhooks database, Webhooks app and Service's callback URL, as explained in the previous paragraph.

We used performance testing to check our new webhook functionality worked at scale for our services. Find out what we learned.

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