API portals: adapting to modern consumers

The concept of an API developer portal began to emerge as part of the expanding world of web APIs in the years…

Build a successful API by understanding user personas

Postman Open Technologies Knowledge Base is a new project with the goal of providing insights from a vast amount of information about…

Emerging trends in GraphQL APIs: the technology powering the future of data exchange

Since its introduction by Facebook in 2015, GraphQL has quickly gained traction as a powerful and flexible alternative for delivering data to…

Announcing Postman’s projects and accepted contributors for Google Summer of Code 2023

In March, we announced that Postman was returning as a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code (GSoC), and we put out…

Set up workspaces and collaborate faster with workspace templates

Almost everyone who uses Postman works within a Postman workspace, which are collaborative places that help individuals and teams solve problems and…

Introducing the Postman VS Code extension

Earlier this year, we announced that we would launch the Postman VS Code extension in 2023. We aim to bring Postman closer…

Announcing the new lightweight Postman API client and sunsetting Scratch Pad

The world has changed dramatically in the last decade. Today, cloud technology is the norm for small and large organizations to deploy…

How to publish and market your API to maximize adoption

You’ve designed an API that is world-class. Now you might be wondering how you get users to start adopting it. If you…

10 reasons why you have to exceed at documenting

I’m leading Postman’s Open Technologies Program Office—our open source program office (OSPO). My team consists mainly of open source contributors, and our…

Generative AI and the impact on APIs and software development

Generative AI has captured the world’s imagination. Computers have surpassed humans in many ways in the past, but for the most part,…

3 reasons why API governance needs internal API advocacy

API governance aims to help people generate maximum value with APIs. But that will only work if people know what APIs are…

Open source vs. commercial API-based: the philosophical frictions of AI foundation models

As the space of foundation models continues to evolve rapidly, two major philosophical frictions have surfaced: the friction between massively large and…