Outpost
Infrastructure
outbound webhook delivery
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5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.47.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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Open-source and self-hostable approach welcomed
From 2 comments
Really excited to try Outpost — especially appreciate that it’s open source. Looking forward to testing it in a real-world setup and sharing feedback!
jonbo372 on HNCongrats on the launch! This is really exciting and seems like an obvious progression on how companies can expose their event streams. Interfaces like kafka are so ubiquitous…
simplesagar on HN
Event destinations like Kafka and queues seen as a better fit than webhooks
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! This is really exciting and seems like an obvious progression on how companies can expose their event streams. Interfaces like kafka are so ubiquitous…
simplesagar on HNA big +1 on the Kafka destination type being a priority. Thanks!
leggetter on HN
Requests
Kafka destination support
From 1 comment
A big +1 on the Kafka destination type being a priority. Thanks!
leggetter on HN
Amazon EventBridge and GCP Pub/Sub destinations
From 1 comment
Looking forward to getting your feedback. We feel we've got a good baseline of features with a few key ones planned (Amazon EventBridge, GCP Pub/Sub, and Kafka destinations). But…
leggetter on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Hookdeck's commercial offering
From 1 comment
Looks great! how is this different from your commercial offering (Hookdeck)?
ksajadi on HN
Alternatives named
Hookdeck event gateway
From 1 comment
I expect to have to answer that question a lot! Hookdeck is an event gateway, an unopinionated event log/message bus that operates over HTTP. It can be used to send webhooks, but…
alexbouchard on HN