Designing Good API Experiences | Postman Intergalactic

Join us for an hour-long introductory-level API design basics learning session where we talk about what makes a good API. This session is oriented towards designers and developers and takes a look into industry best practices and standards, how to design APIs in Postman, and how we can prepare our workspace for the Postman Public API Network. In this Postman learning session, we specifically dive into the design experiences for OpenAPI. – Developer Advocate Pooja and API Governance Lead Arnaud dive into some of the more advanced uses of Postman for designing good API experiences 0:00 Introduction of session and of Pooja and Arnaud 1:32 Agenda and learning goals 3:31 How to design APIs 9:06 Impact of good API design 11:51 Better practices and usual design concerns 13:21 Walk through of working with Postman 15:13 Designing coffee brewing API 41:50 Testing coffee brewing API & error handling 55:36 Versioning better practices 57:30 Wrap up and Review 58:44 Additional Resources Links shared during the session: What is API First Design Blog : https://blog.postman.com/what-is-api-first-design/ Platform Improvement Blog: https://blog.postman.com/announcing-new-postman-api-platform/ Intergalactic Coffee Brewing Collection : https://www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-intergalactic/collection/19456182-0a4c2670-bde6-4044-8d2c-27ae0155a4c2?ctx=documentation Additional resources : Postman Learning Center https://learning.postman.com/ Postman Community https://community.postman.com/ API Handyman Resources: https://apihandyman.io/resources-rules-and-resource-sucks-or-is-it-the-other-way-around/ The Design of Web APIs Book: https://www.manning.com/books/the-design-of-web-apis