Build API-First Products and Business with the Postman API Platform

1. W E L C O M E T O T H E

2. “Every piece of software
built today either uses an
API or is an API”
Abhinav Asthana
Co-Founder & CEO of Postman

3. Growth in API Requests
REQUESTS IN 2019
4.7 Billion

4. Growth in API Collections
Jan
2020
OctJulAprJan
2019
OctJulAprJan
2018
OctJulAprJan
2017
OctJulAprJan
2016
OctJul
CREATED MONTH
35.0M
30.0M
25.0M
20.0M
CUMULATIVECOLLECTIONS
15.0M
10.0M
5.0M
0.0M
34.9M
17.4M
8.5M
3.1M
0.4M

5. 3 Shifts That Led to the Rise of APIs
MobileDesktop
CONSUMER
INFRASTRUCTURE
On-Premise Cloud
Monolith Microservices
ARCHITECTURE

6. APIs across Many Industries
and Use Cases
Business Solutions Cloud Communications Data Management
Financial Services Mobile & Productivity Retail & E-CommerceDevelopment

7. 2012
2012: Abhinav and a small team
started building APIs together

8. Testing APIs Was Painful

9. Postman, v1

10. 2014
2014: Postman, Inc. Founded by
Abhinav, Ankit, and Abhijit
(+ Cooper)

11. Collaborating on APIs Was Still Painful

12. Collections

13. Scripting

14. Sharing

15. 2017: Grew Team to 50 and
Opened San Francisco Office
(Cooper named Chief Happiness Officer)
2017

16. Managing and Maintaining APIs
across the Lifecycle
API Consumer Lifecycle
INTEGRATE
REQUEST
AUTHENTICATE
LEARN
DISCOVER
API Producer Lifecycle
PUBLISH
MONITOR
DOCUMENT TESTING
DEBUG
DEFINE

17. Workspaces

18. Postman API Network

19. 500,000 Organizations
on Postman

20. Shift from API-Last to API-First
API-FIRST DEVELOPMENT
APIs are developed strategically at the
beginning of the development of a system
API-LAST DEVELOPMENT
APIs are developed tactically at the end
of the development of a system

21. 5 Principles of API-First
Development
Consumer
Centric
EnduringCommunication Business
Value
Discoverable

22. Emergence of
API-First Companies

23. The Postman API Platform
Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
RUNTIME
Authorization
Requests
EnvironmentsExamples
Collections
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS
PLATFORMSERVICES

24. The Postman API Platform
Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Monitor
History Docs
Orchestration
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS
Client Interfaces & Partners

25. Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
Runtime Services
The Postman API Platform
RUNTIME
Authorization Requests
EnvironmentsExamples
Collections
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS

26. Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS
The Postman API Platform
Collaboration
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
RUNTIME
Authorization
Requests
Environments
Examples
Collections

27. RUNTIME
Authorization
Requests
Environments
Examples
Collections
Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS
The Postman API Platform
Enterprise Services
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments

28. RUNTIME
Authorization
Requests
Environments
Examples
Collections
Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS
The Postman API Platform
Lifecycle Management

29. Build API-First Products and Businesses
with the Postman API Platform
API-FIRST
DEVELOPMENT
APIs are developed
API-LAST
DEVELOPMENT
PLATFORM SERVICES
Mocks
LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Schema
Monitor
Test History Docs
Orchestration
Role-Based
Access Control
SSO
ENTERPRISE
Audit Logs
Dedicated
IP Addresses
COLLABORATION
Workspaces
Version
Control
Users
Teams Comments
RUNTIME
Authorization Requests
EnvironmentsExamples
Collections
Desktop
Integrations
API Network
CLI Postman API
CLIENT
INTERFACES
PARTNERS

30. - OpenAPI 3.0 Support
- In-app Postman Bootcamp lessons
- Forking and Merging
- Improved Commenting
- Extended Roles and Permissions
- Create APIs directly in Postman
- Support for GraphQL
- Custom Webhooks Integration
- Interceptor for Cookie Syncing
- Postman Visualizer
- Public Profiles
- Improved Request Proxying
- Collection Variables
- Programmatic Cookie Access via
Scripts
- Postman Launchpad
- Support for client certificates
- Detailed Request Timings
- Improved Postman API Keys
- Role-based Access Control
- JSON Schema in Scripts
- Team Discovery
- Postman API Network
- New Code Generators in Documenter
- New Code Generators in Postman App
- Ability to render large responses
- Mock server body matching
- Fake data generation for requests
through dynamic variables
- Enabling request signing in SAML
- Collection Runner
- Improved Postman Console
500 Feature Requests Closed.
1200 Bugs Fixed.

31. API Builder: Now in GA

32. Beta to GA
GraphQL
Support to send GraphQL
requests in Postman
Console
Debug Postman collections
and API network calls
Interceptor
Sync browser cookies to Postman
and capture network requests
directly from Chrome
Visualizer
Easily visualize API data as
charts and graphs
Code Gen
Convert requests into code snippets
in your chosen language

33. What’s Next?
Instantly
available
Always
current
Blazing-fast
performance
Works with
any modern browser

34. Introducing Project Artemis

35. Continuing Your Galactic Journey
JOIN THE POSTMAN
COMMUNITY
BROWSE THE
API NETWORK
community.postman.com explore.postman.com github.com/postmanlabs
VISIT POSTMAN
ON GITHUB

36. @getpostmanpostman.com
Thank You

37. Join Us
Visit our jobs page to know more about
open positions like:
- Developer Advocate
- Engineering Manager
- Technical Lead
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