The acquisition may also assist Postman shut a long-standing operational hole between distributors, who focus on developer expertise, and API administration distributors, he stated.
Whereas API administration platforms equivalent to Apigee, MuleSoft, and Kong stay robust in runtime governance (insurance policies, monetization, multi-gateway, hybrid), distributors equivalent to ReadMe, Redocly, and Stoplight who focus on developer expertise stay robust in documentation and design-first workflows.
“By bringing idiomatic SDKs and tailor-made docs into the identical ecosystem the place APIs are designed and examined, Postman gives a developer-led lifecycle from design, take a look at, docs, SDKs, and adoption, reasonably than gateway-first governance. This can be a differentiated path that enhances gateways,” Dewan stated, noting that many enterprises nonetheless sew collectively docs and SDK technology with separate distributors.
