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Lessons learned from building the best API marketplace in the world
Lessons learned from building the best API marketplace in the world
A while back I worked for an amazing company known for having the largest API marketplace on earth! I’ve learned how hard it can be to grow…
orliesaurus
Feb 14, 2018
“Daily Mix” with Postman Monitors and Spotify
“Daily Mix” with Postman Monitors and Spotify
This continues from my previous post, Music Discovery with Spotify and Postman and concludes the series Conditional Workflows in Postman.
Ankit Sobti
Mar 29, 2017
Prototyping APIs with Open API Specification and Node.js
Prototyping APIs with Open API Specification and Node.js
A story about using Node.js community-built tools effectively in order to speed up the prototyping phase of your API project. In the whole…
Kalin Chernev
Mar 10, 2017
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Agile documentation for your API-driven project
Agile documentation for your API-driven project
“Documentation is like sex; when it’s good, it’s very, very good, and when it’s bad, it’s better than nothing.” — Dick Brandon
Kalin Chernev
Jan 22, 2017
Music Discovery with Spotify and Postman
Music Discovery with Spotify and Postman
This continues from my previous post in the series Conditional Workflows in Postman. We will continue to focus on Postman Collections and…
Ankit Sobti
Dec 4, 2016
Webhooks do’s and dont’s: what we learned after integrating +100 APIs
Webhooks do’s and dont’s: what we learned after integrating +100 APIs
As modern applications are becoming more and more a composite of APIs and the serverless architectures are getting more attention, API…
Giuliano Iacobelli
Nov 22, 2016
Simplifying API documentation for a great first user experience
Simplifying API documentation for a great first user experience
Introductions to languages or software systems usually start with a “Hello World” exercise but most APIs are reference manuals only useful…
Abhinav Asthana
Apr 25, 2016
Conditional Workflows in Postman
Conditional Workflows in Postman
There are some products available in the market to create and execute API workflows. However, most of them are limited by their linear…
Ankit Sobti
Mar 22, 2016
Realtime Doesn’t Belong Everywhere — Build Scalable API Services in Node.js with Nodal
Realtime Doesn’t Belong Everywhere — Build Scalable API Services in Node.js with Nodal
The push to develop realtime web apps has been a fun one, and we’ve seen some awesome products come out of it. Websockets as a technology…
Keith Horwood
Mar 7, 2016
Objects at REST, Part 1: What Is It?
Objects at REST, Part 1: What Is It?
Okay, so, it’s 2016 and you don’t know what REST is, what an API is, or how to design an API with this magical thing called REST
Stu
Mar 7, 2016
Why Your Colleagues Still Don’t Understand Hypermedia APIs
Why Your Colleagues Still Don’t Understand Hypermedia APIs
THIS POST HAS BEEN ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY LUKE STOKES AND IS AVAILABLE HERE (for a bunch of reasons and how Medium is currently handling…
orliesaurus
Nov 20, 2015
Tools that will help you develop a RESTful API
Tools that will help you develop a RESTful API
For all the time I’ve been working on Paw, I tried to stay updated with the new tools and services available to API developers, so I…
Micha Mazaheri
Nov 3, 2015
The REST API Design Checklist
The REST API Design Checklist
Here are some techniques that you should consider employing when you’re designing and implementing a RESTful web service. These techniques…
Amit Saurav
Oct 29, 2015
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