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Home automation with MQTT
Home Assistant is a popular open source home automation platform that provides a unified interface to control and monitor different smart devices….
5 ways to enhance the developer experience with Postman Flows
Humans are hardwired to interpret meaning from images. To such an extent, that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than…
Powering home automation with WebSocket APIs
In Part 1 of this series, we learned about the WebSocket protocol and how to set up our own WebSocket server in…
Get started using Google Cloud APIs to manage cloud infrastructure
It’s not just developers who rely on APIs. DevOps engineers and data engineers also use APIs for many reasons, including to manage…
How to persist Postman variables
In programming, variables allow you to store and reuse values throughout your code. You can also use variables in Postman to define…
Why do developers care about API-first?
There’s a lot of talk lately about API-first as an approach to design and development. While there are many paths to API-first,…
Improve your time to first API call by 20x
The most important API metric is time to first call (TTFC), and having a Postman workspace with collections is crucial to increasing…
RAML and API Blueprint: where are they now?
The API design battles have long been settled. But occasionally, someone asks, “Should I use RAML, or should I use OpenAPI?” If…
Create reusable tests and scripts with OpenAPI reusable components
In programming, “hacking” has historically meant making something do what it wasn’t originally intended to do, like using a whistle from a…
Set up a WebSocket server in Node.js
The WebSocket protocol provides a way to exchange data between a client and server over a persistent connection. The data can be…
Postman Quickstarts: a hands-on learning experience
Postman Quickstarts is a new hands-on, tutorial learning experience for the Postman community. Most Quickstarts lessons will guide you through the process…
Recommended Postman skills for API testing professionals
A while back, I highlighted the top jobs requiring Postman experience. Since then, APIs have only become even more important to software…