reliability

Webhook design patterns for reliable, secure integrations: signature verification, idempotency, retries, queues, and dead-letter handling. Updated for 2026.

Germany's regulator reported 12.8 minutes of unplanned outage per customer in 2023. US customers averaged about 11 hours in 2024, a hurricane year, and about 2 hours in routine conditions. A clean global ranking does not exist because countries count outages differently, so this article compares what each national source actually reports.