In this episode, I’m chatting (for the 3rd time as my guest) with Teemu Tammela, all about Postman, a collaboration platform for API development. Teemu is a Certified Contentful Professional, Contentful Partner and software developer from Finland.
Questions Asked
- Tell us about your background
- How did you get into Contenttful?
- What is Postman?
- What's your primary use for Postman?
- What are payloads in an API?
- Why use Postman over 'curl' on the command line?
- Tell us all about the different display modes in Postman.
- How can you mitigate onboarding of new engineers using Postman?
- Does Postman replace traditional code documentation?
- Tell us about environments in Postman?
- How can you use Postman environments?
- Would you recommend mimicking your GIT environments in postman?
- What are collections and folders in Postman used for?
- Can collections be shared to the public?
- Tell us about Workspaces, Groups and Access in Postman.
- How does testing work in Postman?
- What kind of test would you write in Postman?
- Can you tell us about pre-request scripts?
- Does Postman work with GraphQL?
- Tell us about the Postman CLI tool.
- Tell us about the Postman API.
- Tell us about variables and variable scopes in Postman.
- What are the request method types supported by Postman?
- What are Postman Monitors and Postman Collection Runners?
- Do you recommend other tools similar to Postman?
- Does Postman support plugins?