The API Economy

You hear a lot about the digital, online, cloud, and app economies these days. Business analysts, journalists, and bloggers have successfully used…

Intermediate API Skills: Reference Collections

Postman collections are versatile machine-readable representations of what is possible with an API. As with other formats like OpenAPI and RAML, Postman…

Postman Collections As API Contracts

If you follow the API sector, you may have heard the phrase “API contracts.” Many people refer to machine-readable API definitions like…

Getting Started with the NASA International Space Apps Challenge

Postman is supporting the NASA Space Apps Challenge—an international hackathon where teams interact with NASA’s open data to work on projects that…

Being the Postman API Champion at Your Organization

API change across large organizations takes having a leader, or an army of leaders driving the API conversation. Successful API programs tend…

Intro to APIs: History of APIs

In order to understand why APIs are so important, we’ll need to take a look at how we got here. While web…

Intro to APIs: Where Do You Get Started with APIs?

One of the biggest challenges with onboarding people to the world of APIs is that there are so many different use cases….

How to Organize Your API With Collections, Environments, and Workspaces

Postman provides a very flexible set of tools for helping API providers define their APIs more effectively. Postman makes APIs more discoverable,…

Introducing Cisco DevNet APIs to the Postman API Network – Security, Networking, Device, and Video-conferencing APIs

We have a new suite of Postman Collections to share with our community, published by network and security provider Cisco as part…

Intro to APIs: Why You Should Care about APIs

Continuing our series centered around introducing APIs to our more mainstream business users, we wanted to go beyond what an API is,…

Intro to APIs: What Are APIs Used for?

Building upon our most recent story introducing APIs, we wanted to continue our series with an introduction to what APIs are used…