Postman Keynote with Ankit Sobti: Building the API-first Organization | Postman Galaxy 2021
summary
Postman documents a concrete evolution: starting teams of 3→10 then 10→50 to ~50 engineers, growing from a few services to 20+ microservices and hitting “dependency hell,” then shifting to domain-driven squads, OKRs and a centralized governance team. The org adopts Postman collections and consumer-driven contract tests, mocks to parallelize UI and API work, OpenAPI syncing, a private API network with search, and monitors. Result: decentralized ownership with centralized guards that prevents consumer breaks and makes APIs productized and discoverable.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to API-first
- 3:27API landscape and types
- 8:13Postman’s zero-to-one stage
- 11:44Transition to one-to-ten stage
- 17:26Centralizing API decisions
- 21:44Preparing for 10-to-100 growth
- 25:14Domain-driven design approach
- 31:11API as a product mindset
- 34:44API landscape in growth stage
- 39:07Scaling collaboration with APIs
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