Collaborate Like You Mean it: The End of Siloed API Development
summary
Argues that APIs must be treated as products and shows concrete collaboration tooling: a Postman-centered platform with Postman collections, mock servers and executable documentation, CI review gates and Newman integration into pipelines, consumer-driven contracts and a maturity model for quality. Claims rapid adoption — 7 million users and a $50M funding round — and demonstrates workflows where mock servers let frontends iterate before backends exist and collections run in CI to catch regressions, improving delivery and reducing surprise breakages.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 6:33What Can We Learn from these Collaboration Systems
- 7:03Common Language
- 8:27Systems Need Good Governance
- 8:59Tools That Are Available for Api Collaboration
- 10:37Developer Experience
- 12:16Mock Servers
- 13:25Executable Documentation
- 16:48Jobs To Be Done
- 19:45Consumer Driven Contracts
- 22:00Avoid Ivory Tower Architecture
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