What are the components of an API?

APIs are sets of code-based instructions that enable software components to communicate and transfer data, and they are the building blocks of…

5 ways to reduce exposure to API security risks

API security has become a significant concern as insecure APIs may provide attackers with access to sensitive customer data. In recent years,…

API testing in Kubernetes with Postman and Testkube

This is a guest post written by Bruno Lopes, product leader at Kubeshop. If you’re a QA engineer or software developer, you…

OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 and GraphQL

This is a guest post by Antoine Carossio, ex-Apple, cofounder & CTO at Escape – GraphQL Security. The OWASP API Security Top…

Boost your productivity in Postman with these 4 keyboard shortcuts

This is a guest post written by Cara Borenstein, co-founder and CEO at Stashpad  Using keyboard shortcuts for actions that you perform…

Post to all of your social accounts with the Ayrshare Postman Collection

This is a guest post written by Boris Markovich, co-founder at Ayrshare. There are multiple social networks that have crossed over a…

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…

Improve your time to first API call by 20x

The most important API metric is time to first call (TTFC), and having a Postman workspace with collections is crucial to increasing…

Using AI tools like ChatGPT to control IoT lights

On a recent livestream, I had the pleasure of hosting Postman’s Jan Schenk and Saswat Das to talk about how we used…

How GraphQL fits into the API lifecycle

The API lifecycle is a series of steps that teams must take to successfully design, develop, deploy, and consume APIs. Although every…

Differences between Postman Collections and the collection format

The collection format specification defines the structure of Postman Collections that we know and love—providing all the information we need about a…

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…