The 3 fundamental checks of API governance rules
API definitions, such as OpenAPI documents, are often inspected to perform automated API governance checks. As an API definition aims to describe…
What are HTTP methods?
HTTP methods are used to indicate the action an API client would like to perform on a given resource. Each HTTP method…
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…
OpenAPI vs. Swagger
Swagger 2 and OpenAPI 3 are API specifications that describe RESTful HTTP APIs in YAML- or JSON-based documents that can be read…
Translating user benefits into API capabilities
As part of my ongoing work designing the Postman Open Technologies Knowledge Base API, I have identified most of the technical characteristics…
Postman’s guide to 5 essential API testing techniques
Postman has revolutionized the way developers test APIs, offering a comprehensive set of tools and features that streamline the API testing process….
Automate API versioning with the Postman API and GitHub actions
Postman helps your organization design, document, develop, test, and monitor your APIs. With versions, you can create and iterate on your APIs….
Set up severe weather alerts around a geofence
With Tomorrow.io and Postman currently running the Harness the Weather Hackathon through August 1, 2023 (featuring a top prize of US$1,000!), this…
Performance testing vs. load testing vs. stress testing
This is a guest post written by Nikki Siapno, co-founder of Level Up Coding, a company that is transforming programming education with…
Build your own weather app with one call
Tomorrow.io is on a really cool mission to give you the most accurate real-time weather data, even going so far as launching…
Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
Today, I’m happy to announce that Akita—who has built the fastest, easiest way to understand your APIs in production—has joined Postman. With…
The Postman VS Code extension is now in early access with new features
We recently announced the launch of the Postman VS code extension focusing on enabling users to send requests across multiple protocols in…
