I did some experimenting and found a way to get the round trip time from us-east-2 to my machine in NY from 150ms down to 30ms. The question is, is this worth doing? How do people feel about roundtrip times to their machine? Is it fast enough? Do you feel slowness in other places that aren't the round trip?

Webhooks do timeout for me when I'm using the live mode but I can easily work around that by increasing the function timeout. If you've nothing more important to take on then you could take this up. I'd maybe use a poll here or on GitHub discussions to prioritise next steps.

Do you think they timeout because the payload takes a long time to get to you? Or because of local code execution speed

It’s the payload that takes time. My lambda handlers are extremely quick, none of them cross 500ms in avg response time.

Can you estimate that time

It happens occasionally, the added latency is somewhere around 500 ms to 1 s. I’ll try to keep an eye when I work with webhooks again.

Got it

Any reduction in latency is worth it 😄