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Webhooks were introduced as the communication bridge between third-party service providers and consumers/application providers, to send callback data back to application providers when events occurred at the service provider’s end – thereby enabling effective realtime messaging.

Introduction

Most often, they were using long polling. In short, polling entails the application periodically sending requests to the server for status updates on any remotely occurring events. Bandwidth issues aside, the other problem with this approach is that it doesn’t reliably provide updates in real time, unless the client application fetches the API with extremely high frequency.