How we’re protecting your Postman API keys in GitLab

Today, we’re excited to announce a new integration with GitLab Secret Detection, which will protect your Postman API keys in GitLab public…

Accelerate your broadpeak.io video and audio streaming with Postman

This is a guest post written by Mathias Guile, VP cloud platform at broadpeak.io. broadpeak.io is a video API-based platform that offers…

Powering home automation with WebSocket APIs

In Part 1 of this series, we learned about the WebSocket protocol and how to set up our own WebSocket server in…

How to choose between REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC vs. SOAP

To create the Postman Open Technologies Knowledge Base API, I’ve been following our team’s internal API design playbook, which covers the strategy,…

What Is a REST API? Examples, Uses, and Challenges

Originally published on July 9, 2020 Application programming interfaces (APIs) come in many shapes and sizes, which can make it pretty difficult for…

What Is a SOAP API?

Originally published by Kin Lane on September 16, 2020 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a message specification for exchanging information between…

Get started using Google Cloud APIs to manage cloud infrastructure

It’s not just developers who rely on APIs. DevOps engineers and data engineers also use APIs for many reasons, including to manage…

What is an API key?

An API key is a unique string of randomly generated characters that is used to authenticate clients and grant access to an…

How to persist Postman variables

In programming, variables allow you to store and reuse values throughout your code. You can also use variables in Postman to define…

What is an API endpoint?

An API endpoint is a URL that acts as the point of contact between an API client and an API server. API…

Introducing Postman Assets Scaffolding to automatically build Postman assets

Today, we’re announcing a new tool known as Postman Assets Scaffolding (PAS), which is available in the Postman Public Workspace. This exciting…

Build an API with Postman, Node.js, and MySQL

This guest post was written by Greg Bulmash, author of Hell on $5 A Day, blogger at LetMyPeopleCode, and content creator for…