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SharePoint Webhooks -- now Generally Available!
Thx for the comparison. Is there any reason to switch to using web hooks (besides being nice to future developers :) )? We are currently using remove event receivers, deployed using SP Add in. Is there for example any improvement in performance? Avoiding the use of SP Add-In is, as far as I can see, the biggest plus for using web hooks.
One detail that might be useful is that web hooks have an automatic retry mechanism. According to the docs linked to above: "If an event occurs in SharePoint and your service endpoint is not reachable (e.g., due to maintenance) SharePoint will retry sending the notification. SharePoint performs a retry of 5 times with a 5 minute wait time between the attempts". To contrast, there is no queue and no retry mechanism for remote event receivers.