Recipes for Creating API Driven Workflows

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Hi, I’m Pooja! @poojamakes ● Developer Advocate, Postman ● Big time foodie & Amateur home chef Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. It is used by 20 million + people world wide 🌏🌎🌍 For many teams, Postman is an everyday tool that helps people work with APIs more efficiently @poojamakes

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API ecosystem is global and growing 2021 State of the API Report @poojamakes

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We are moving towards an API First World @poojamakes

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The API Lifecycle @poojamakes

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API Lifecycle Define Design Document Deploy Test Secure Monitor Discover @poojamakes

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Let’s Break Down This Recipe @poojamakes

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Ingredients Direction Consumable Product @poojamakes

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Today, we will be making … @poojamakes

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Let’s look at some tools @poojamakes

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Postman App @poojamakes

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Workspaces @poojamakes

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Collections @poojamakes

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Requests @poojamakes

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Variables @poojamakes

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Scripts Pre-Request Script Test Script @poojamakes

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Putting it all together @poojamakes

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Building Today’s Recipe @poojamakes

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Fork Collection Here @poojamakes

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API OPs Modular design of API workflows to enable reusability and scalability Who is API Ops For ? ● Developers ● DevOps ● Testers ● SREs ● Marketing Ops If you use APIs to get things done, you are doing APIOps. - Kaustav Das Modak APIOps: The art of mixing APIs @poojamakes

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@poojamakes Some ways to Script

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Set & Get Variables @poojamakes

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Sending Requests from Scripts @poojamakes

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Looping Requests & Stopping Workflow @poojamakes

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@poojamakes Some ways to Automate

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Collection Runner @poojamakes

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Newman @poojamakes

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Monitors @poojamakes

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Flows @poojamakes

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What Will You Make ?

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+ + Webex Meeting Notifier w/ Email & Slack Automate adding Eventbrite attendees to Insightly and MailChimp + + + + + + + + Location & Weather insights from in person events on Twitter Favorite Genre Playlists to send over via text New Twitch streamer live streams posted to LinkedIn and Discord The possibilities are endless! @poojamakes