Building Your First Event-Driven Pipeline with Argo Events: From Webhook to Workflow

Your team just shipped a new microservice. The code is clean, the tests pass, and the deployment went smoothly. Now comes the part nobody warned you about: connecting everything together. GitHub pushes need to trigger builds. Slack messages should kick off deployments. S3 uploads have to start data pipelines. And somehow, all of this needs to happen automatically, reliably, and without you writing yet another custom webhook handler or maintaining a polling service that wakes up every 30 seconds to ask "anything new?" You've been here before. Maybe you wrote a quick script that polls an API endpoint. Maybe you spun up a small service just to receive webhooks and forward them to your CI system. These solutions work—until they don't. The polling script misses events during network blips. The webhook handler becomes a single point of failure. The "temporary" glue code turns into tribal knowledge that only two people on the team understand. This is the problem Argo Events was built to solve