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…

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…

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…

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,…

How to build an API

An API, or an application programming interface, is a set of code-based instructions that enable different software components to communicate and transfer…

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…

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…