The 5 dimensions of API consistency

API governance often rhymes with consistency because consistent APIs significantly maximize the value generated by APIs. But achieving the creation of APIs…

What’s next for API portals?

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

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…

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…

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…

Consistent API designs make people feel outrageously smart

API governance aims to help people maximize the value generated by APIs by fostering the creation of the right APIs in “the…

3 tips to get people comfortable with API governance

Many people are uncomfortable when it comes to API governance—whether it’s due to fear or even hate for it because of their…

How to enhance your API-first design process

An API-first design should be reusable, interoperable, modifiable, user-friendly, secure, efficient, pragmatic, and—crucially—aligned with the organization’s goals. These essential traits will ensure…

Postman and Microcks partner to deliver enterprise-grade mocking and testing

We are excited to announce that the team behind the multi-protocol open source enterprise testing and mocking solution Microcks has joined the…

My ScrapingBee journey

Here at Postman, we have been harvesting publicly available OpenAPI artifacts from GitHub for a couple of months to better understand how…