Webhooks are simple callbacks that are rapidly growing in popularity with a lot of developers. Webhooks work in a very similar way to Lambda functions; they are invoked when a particular event is fired by an application on the web. This makes them highly applicable to a variety of web development use cases where, rather than having a traditional API that polls for data on a frequent basis, you use a Webhook to get data at real time.
With most APIs there's a request followed by a response, whereas in the case of Webhooks, they simply send the data whenever it's available.
The way a Webhook works is quite simple! To use a Webhook, you register a URL with the Webhook provider, for example IFTTT or Zapier. The URL is a place within your application that will accept the data and do something with it. In some cases, you can tell the provider the situations...
