API Engineer - Fundamentals (101)

Overview

A baseline for all engineering teams in 2024 is that they are aware of the basics of consuming and producing APIs, focusing on what internal engineers will need to succeed in their work. Walking away from this workshop, any engineer will be confident in designing, documenting, testing and monitoring entirely new APIs from scratch, as well as onboarding, troubleshooting, consuming, documenting, testing and monitoring existing APIs.

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of HTTP
• Basic understanding of REST APIs

Audience

Any engineer who consumes and produces APIs.

Learning objectives

After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:

• Set up workspaces, invite teammates and collaborate together
• Explore the Public API Network to discover and onboard with an existing public API
• Use test snippets to build test suites
• Create and set variables at multiple scopes
• Create comprehensive documentation that helps people understand what your API does, what endpoints are available and how to interact with them successfully
• Design, prototype, share, and iterate upon the design of an API from scratch
• Use the Collection Runner, Scheduled Runs, and Monitors to observe the performance and availability of your APIs

Sign up process

If you are interested in scheduling this workshop with our trainers, please follow the instructions below depending on your team size:

• For teams of 5 or more, please contact us to schedule your future workshop session. In your message to our team, include your name, last name, company information, desired workshop, and workshop audience size. The Postman Academy team will follow up with you, providing a personalized sign-up option within 48 business hours of receiving your request.
• For individuals or teams with fewer than five members, please complete this form to be added to the waitlist

If you have questions about this workshop, please visit our Enterprise Workshops Get Help page.