Standard Webhooks has been launched in collaboration with Kong and a consortium of companies, including Svix, Ngrok, Zapier, Twilio, Lob, Mux, and Supabase, aiming to standardize the way webhooks are implemented across the industry. Webhooks, which function as HTTP callbacks enabling service notifications, face challenges due to fragmented implementations that vary in quality and compatibility, leading to consumer and provider friction. The initiative seeks to provide a set of open-source guidelines and libraries to ensure secure and easy integration of webhooks, promoting a consistent and efficient developer experience. This standardization effort is crucial for reducing the need for bespoke solutions, improving innovation, and facilitating smoother server-to-server communication. Kong, already utilizing webhooks in its audit-logging features, supports this effort to streamline development processes and reduce consumer friction, planning to integrate the standard into its offerings like Kong Konnect, Kong Gateway, and Kuma.