There are a ton of things in Postman that enterprises should be taking advantage of to accelerate collaboration and consistency at scale. In this blog post, we’ll go over actionable information and resources related to user management, naming standards, SSO/SCIM, and much more. Collaborative Postman workspaces enable every person who has access to the workspace to see the same collections, environments, and other assets. This allows for shared-context building that is much faster than traditional modes of collaboration through sending documents over email, and it’s more interactive than tradit ..read more

gRPC is one of the most popular API architectural patterns for building service-to-service communication systems in distributed environments. It is a highly performant, open source, and universal RPC framework that was released by Google in 2015. It is based on HTTP/2 and is often used for efficient bi-directional client-to-server communication, as well as duplex data streaming. Node.js is an open source cross-platform JavaScript runtime that is built on Chrome’s v8 JavaScript engine that is capable of executing JavaScript code outside of a web browser. In this tutorial, you will learn how to ..read more

Since day one, Postman has been about developer productivity. It started by saving developers from repeatedly typing the same commands and grew into an API platform used by millions. Early on, we recognized that APIs are inherently collaborative because they’re two-sided. A client calls the API, a server returns the response, and the relationship is valuable because the API serves a purpose for the client. But that collaboration isn’t limited to a single client and server. Teams build APIs, stakeholders review APIs, and when it comes to public APIs, there are millions of clients. At that scale ..read more

In less than a month, the API community will gather in San Francisco for Postman’s largest user conference ever, POST/CON 24, from April 30 to May 1. Join this packed and informative two-day event to network, learn API skills, and explore the latest tech innovations alongside global tech leaders. We’re excited to share the news that we’ve just expanded the speaker lineup at POST/CON 24: Join us for a panel on AI led by Sri Viswanath, managing director/CEO at Coatue Ventures and ex-CTO at Atlassian. During “Navigating the Divide: Open vs. Proprietary AI,” Sri and industry leaders from cloud com ..read more

One of the best ways for API producers to improve their API distribution strategy is to invest heavily in the discoverability of their APIs. APIs should be visible, searchable, and easy for developers to find and work with. Additionally, API integration should be a seamless process that doesn’t require the API consumer to regularly consult with the API producer. In this article, we’ll discuss the concept of API discoverability in more detail—with a focus on who needs to discover APIs. After that, we’ll explore Postman workspaces and review how these collaborative spaces for API-related work im ..read more

Postman Collections are executable documentation for APIs and API workflows, designed for sharing. They let you organize multiple API requests in a single folder and subfolders and help you collaborate with teammates to create and design your API. You can use them to create requests and examples of your API’s responses, run collections, share your collection, and use collections in your development workflows. But a Postman Collection is only useful when it’s, well, easy to use. And great documentation makes that possible. Strong collection documentation provides thorough details about how to g ..read more

This is a guest blog post by Stefan Djokic, tech content creator and .NET senior software engineer.  An API, short for “application programming interface,” facilitates communication between two computer systems. Let’s consider a mobile weather application that provides users with real-time weather updates. This app doesn’t have its own weather data but relies on external sources for accurate and up-to-date information. When a user opens the app and requests the current weather for their location, the app uses an API to communicate with a remote weather service. This API could be provided ..read more

It may seem like no matter how much work your team puts into monitoring, it’s not enough. New functionalities and new incidents keep slipping past your alerts and dashboards! It’s not your fault. Reliability is getting harder. The rise of APIs means it’s easier than ever before to build quickly. The flip side: it’s harder than ever to get ahead of production incidents. Today, many developers are drowning in a sea of logs and errors. In this blog post, let’s examine why performance monitoring isn’t serving all needs anymore, what it looks like to keep up with the pace of software development, a ..read more

We love hearing from our community about how you’re using Postman to improve your API development experience—it truly continues to inspire us. But have you ever wondered how we might be using Postman internally as we’re building the Postman API Platform and optimizing our own workflows? In this installment of our “How Postman uses Postman” blog series, we’re taking a look inside Postman Open Technologies to see how they’re using Postman at Postman. Today, we’re chatting with Pascal Heus, who is the data lead in Postman Open Technologies. Pascal is based in Alberta, Canada. Pascal, what kind of ..read more

Postman Collections are an excellent tool for collaborating with users in the API design, development, testing, and documentation processes. You can share your collection with others, who can then help in the development process by providing their feedback in . To help your API users, you should always define the following items in a collection: Documentation: Adding descriptions to the collection and its requests helps users understand the collection’s purpose and how your API works. At the collection’s top level, provide details for how users can get started. Describing requests in your col ..read more