HOP 00 · ABOUT
Relay Worker started as a set of private notes: patterns that kept showing up across different webhook and queue integrations, written down after the third time fixing the same category of bug in a different codebase. Idempotency missing. Retries with no backoff. A dead-letter queue that existed in a diagram but not in production. The specifics changed. The shape of the failure didn't.
This site is those notes, cleaned up and made public. It isn't a product, and it isn't trying to sell you a platform. It's a point of view: that webhook and queue reliability is mostly a small set of deliberate decisions, made in advance, by someone who has actually been paged for the alternative.
Everything published here is meant to hold up regardless of which specific tools you're using. Vendors change. The underlying problem, an HTTP request that might not arrive, might arrive late, might arrive twice, or might not arrive at all, doesn't. If you're building or maintaining anything that depends on webhooks or queues to move real work through a system, that's who this is for.
New notes go up occasionally, not on a schedule. Reliability writing rushed out to hit a calendar defeats its own point.