E20 | A Conversation about Postman | Teemu Tammela

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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?