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Payment Webhook Bug Blocks Zoom Scheduling After Successful Charge
A developer building an appointment platform discovered that a payment webhook, which was supposed to trigger Zoom meeting creation after a successful charge, could fail if downstream operations were slow. The bug caused successful payments to not result in scheduled sessions. The fix involved decoupling the webhook from synchronous processing to prevent retries from duplicating bookings.
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The story highlights a common anti-pattern in webhook handling that can break critical user flows, but the fix is straightforward and well-known among experienced developers.
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