Need clarification what webhooks are for in Dgraph

[Poolshark (Flo Ragossnig)]

@jdgamble555

Because you would effectively be putting middleware before the actual query. You can’t run the actual query until the middleware completes, hence slowing it down. Also worth noting that lambdas run on an entirely different server.

Well, of course! That’s the entire point of having a middleware. Post-hooks should also prevent the main request to be executed before their completion (at least you should be able to trigger a rollback). Pre/post hooks just define the DB state before and after the main request.

But now I understand the logic behind performance - it’s a bit misleading from the Dgraph team here.