New Postman release supports the development of APIs for artificial intelligence with ... AI

According to Abhinav Asthana, co-founder and CEO of API management platform Postman, API management will be the key to success with artificial intelligence.

APIs should be understandable to AI bots and very easy to understand and integrate, he explained.

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The State of the API report reports on data visualization and developer workflows in developing WebSockets and GraphQL APIs, he added. Postman plans to invest in better tools for this in the future, he said. Postman is language- and architecture-independent, he added, so it supports REST, SOAP, GraphQL and other types of APIs: copypastes, which focus on autocomplete code, Postbot is designed to bring in internal sources and support the conversation about API development.

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Postman v11 also includes enhanced support for APIs serving external partners, which is one of the main challenges in API development. Until recently, email and sometimes Slack were the tool of choice for enterprises with multiple partner APIs, Asthana said.

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APIs need to be well documented, they need to be well understood because you can only rely on developer skills to figure them out. Bots, no matter how smart they are, are still bots.

Abhiwan Asthana, co-founder and CEO of API management platform Postman

Version 11 also adds a new way to communicate for updates: it includes a feed that lets internal and external customers know that the API has been updated. This eliminates the risk of consumers using an outdated API. Workspaces also allows developers to communicate about the API with multiple API partners at once, eliminating the need to send multiple emails.

Postman has published a blog post detailing all the updates in version 11. Other developer-oriented features include the following:

• Adding a VS code extension that allows programmers to develop and test APIs directly in their IDE;
• The ability to modify a script once and use it everywhere, thanks to a feature called Package Library, which is used to store frequently used scripts and tests as packages;
• Securely reuse sensitive data in HTTP collections, environments and requests using Postman storage or integrate with third-party storage already in use, including AWS, Azure and HashiCorp; and
• European Union developers can use Postman by gaining early access to the Postman EU Data Residency program, which is still by invitation only.