Building for the “99% Developers”

This piece first appeared in Andreessen-Horowitz’s Future publication in February 2022. At the time, I was founder and CEO of Akita Software,…

Postman Classroom Program: NITK students build cutting-edge software with an API-first approach

Postman recently completed its first year of partnership with the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), and we’re so proud of all…

What is OpenAPI?

OpenAPI, formerly known as Swagger, is an interoperable, machine-readable, and human-friendly specification format that is used to define HTTP APIs. It relies…

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…

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…

Announcing the Harness the Weather Hackathon with Tomorrow.io

Postman and Tomorrow.io invite you to take on the challenge of innovating how we understand, interact with, and utilize weather data in…

4 key updates to Postman API Governance

Postman is committed to solving API development challenges at scale. Recently, we’ve heard from folks at many large-scale organizations who are struggling…

Top 30 APIs for best developer experience

An API should be easy to understand, intuitive, and well-documented. It should provide clear and concise instructions for developers to integrate the…

How Postman uses JSON Schema

The Postman API Platform offers a rich set of solutions for every step of the API lifecycle. Through the years, we have…

What I learned from interviewing potential users before designing an API

I’ve been working on the Postman Open Technologies Knowledge Base project with the goal of implementing the Knowledge Base API. I’ve followed…