Kin Lane, the Chief Evangelist of Postman, has spent the last decade helping organizations think through their API lifecycles and optimize their business processes. He continues to be a prolific writer on his famous blog site, the API Evangelist.
Kin shares his perspectives on API governance, guidelines for deprecating & versioning, and interesting implementations he’s seen with Postman Collections. Specifically, he covers:
• Kin's path into APIs and what led him to Postman
• How prevalent are APIs
• Standardizing APIs across your entire company
• Ensuring API governance in larger companies vs. startups
• DevEx is more than documentation
• Measuring developer activation and success
• How to evaluate DevRel
• What is APIOps
• Versioning guidelines
• HTTP headers are very important
• Know your customer so you can communicate change
• Tired of supporting multiple client libraries
• Stabilizing your API lifecycle
• Is there a market for GraphQL
• Are there any good resources for APIs