Webhook vs API — Which One Do You Need?

A quick and non-technical intro to event-based and request-based data transfers

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD
Towards Data Science
6 min readDec 5, 2021

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A hook. Photo by Grant Durr on Unsplash

Even if you are completely unfamiliar with technology, you likely utilize APIs on a daily basis. Whether ordering from an online store, determining your train schedule, or checking a weather app— we constantly pose requests for information, which is retrieved from…

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Assistant professor in Financial Engineering and Operations Research. Writing about reinforcement learning, optimization problems, and data science.