Building a Lightning-Fast Global Webhook Processor in Go

Build a Go service that receives third-party webhook payloads, validates them, and writes clean event records into SQL.

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The Stack

• Go with net/http or Gin
• Postgres or MySQL
• A persistent runtime with native Go connection pooling
• Adios routing, TLS, logs, and deploy controls

Why This Feels Like a Superpower

Webhook receivers should be boring and fast. A compiled Go binary starts quickly, uses little memory, and can keep database pools open in a long-running runtime. Adios handles the production plumbing around it.

1. Build the Handler

Ask the Adios AI agent:

Build a Go webhook processor with POST /webhooks/:provider. Verify a shared
signature header, decode JSON, store events in Postgres, and expose /healthz.
Use context-aware database calls and tests for invalid signatures.

2. Add adios.yaml

name: webhook-processor
region: de
replicas: 2

build_cmd: go build -o /app/webhook-processor ./cmd/server
start_cmd: /app/webhook-processor

runtime:
  name: [email protected]
  port: 8080
  health_path: /healthz
  memory_mb: 512

secrets:
  DATABASE_URL: secret://DATABASE_URL
  WEBHOOK_SECRET: secret://WEBHOOK_SECRET

requires:
  - db

3. Deploy

adios secrets set WEBHOOK_SECRET
adios up
adios logs --runtime

4. Stress Test

Use your preferred load-testing tool against the generated route. Watch request latency, runtime logs, and database writes. The point is not to chase a fake benchmark, but to learn how a small Go binary behaves under real traffic.