E20 | A Conversation about Postman | Teemu Tammela

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.

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Questions Asked

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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?