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Postman survey finds 66 percent of devs use APIs regularly

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Richard Harris

Postman has released its 2018 State of the API Survey. This year’s survey was sent to the nearly 5 million worldwide members of the Postman community, to better understand the API developers’ workflow, pain points, and perspective for where the API space is headed. Already an essential part of software development for web, IoT, mobile and AI applications,...

What is an API and why are they important to developers

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Richard Harris

API is technically short for “Application Programming Interface”, and the term is tossed around in the programming industry so much, the overall complexity of what they are and how they can make your life easier - or a living hell gets overlooked. It’s amusing that there are so many street-talk definitions for what an API is too. One definition I found is “a set of...

Four tips for better collections in API development

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by Richard Harris

Whether your collections are for testing or documentation, collections are a way for humans to collaborate. A good collection clearly describes the behavior and usage of your API. These 2 types of collections typically have a different audience, are written by different authors and will contain different content. For these reasons, it’s a good practice to maintain separ...

Postman 6.0 aims to help API development collaboration

Friday, February 23, 2018 by Richard Harris

Postman has announced the release of Postman 6.0, which includes the introduction of Workspaces, an entirely new construct to enhance collaboration on connected software. Workspaces is a completely new development resource that improves organization and collaboration within the Postman API dev environment. Developers can better organize their API work - and speed up and...

2017 State of API Survey released

Friday, October 6, 2017 by Richard Harris

Postman has released its 2017 State of API Survey. This survey of the Postman API community around the world was completed earlier in 2017 and asked a variety of questions about API usage, technologies, tools and concerns.API use is exploding among developers, as APIs are an essential part of software development for the web, IoT, mobile and AI applications. APIs allow ...