6 min read
An Ably alternative: what to look at and when to stay
Looking for an Ably alternative? Compare Eventeer, Pusher Channels, Centrifugo and Socket.IO by capability: presence, history, SDKs and hosting.
- alternatives
- ably
- websocket
- realtime
The Eventeer blog
Guides for people who receive, store and forward events: webhooks, device connections, replay, fan-out and alerts. Every code sample matches the real API.
6 min read
Hookdeck alternatives: what to use instead, and when
Looking for a Hookdeck alternative? Compare Eventeer, Svix, Convoy and a DIY cloud queue by the job each does, and when staying with Hookdeck is right.
- alternatives
- hookdeck
- webhooks
5 min read
PubNub alternative: 4 options for IoT and realtime
Looking for a PubNub alternative? Compare Eventeer, Ably, AWS IoT Core and HiveMQ Cloud by protocol, presence, history and device handling, and when to stay.
- alternatives
- pubnub
- iot
- realtime
5 min read
A Pusher alternative: Eventeer, Ably and Centrifugo compared
Looking for an alternative to Pusher? Compare Eventeer, Ably and Centrifugo by capability: presence, client events, replay, webhooks and device sockets.
- alternatives
- pusher
- websocket
- realtime
7 min read
Svix alternative: what to use instead, by job
Looking for a Svix alternative? Compare Eventeer, Hookdeck, Hook0 and Convoy by job: sending to customers, receiving, devices, replay and self-hosting.
- alternatives
- svix
- webhooks
6 min read
Running a hosted WebSocket server for IoT devices
What it takes to run a WebSocket server for IoT devices yourself, auth, acks, presence, reconnects, downlink and scaling, and what a hosted listener covers.
- iot
- websocket
- devices
6 min read
How to replay failed webhooks without losing events
A provider sent the webhook once and your endpoint was down. Store raw events, dedupe with idempotency keys, and replay to a destination after the outage.
- webhooks
- replay
- reliability
6 min read
How to verify webhook signatures
How HMAC webhook signature verification works, with raw body, timestamp and constant-time compare, for Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Standard Webhooks and Eventeer.
- webhooks
- security
- hmac
5 min read
Fan out one webhook to many endpoints
Providers let you register one webhook URL. Fan out each event to several endpoints and browsers, with retries, a delivery log and signed requests.
- webhooks
- fan-out
- destinations
- streams
5 min read
Alert when a webhook source goes quiet
A failing webhook often looks like silence, not errors. Set up a quiet-for-N-minutes alert, metrics on payload fields and a dashboard so you hear first.
- monitoring
- alerts
- webhooks
- metrics
Try it with your own events
Create an organization, point a webhook at a listener and watch the events arrive. Pick a plan when you are ready to send real traffic.