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2026-08-16 05:42
Why HTTP 200 Lies: Testing Payment Webhook Idempotency & State Invariants in Local Dev
Why HTTP 200 Lies: Testing Payment Webhook Idempotency & State Invariants in Local Dev
Every backend engineer who has integrated Stripe, Razorpay, or PayPal knows this sinking feeling:
Your webhook handler returns HTTP 200 OK, your Datadog dashboard is green, Sentry reports zero runtime exceptions, and yet... a customer was double-credited, an out-of-order refund corrupted a database ledger, ...