Introducing Postman Flows

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Postman Flows is a visual API workflow builder. It allows you to connect APIs logically by chaining requests, handling data, processing data. This is low-code tool that can help you quickly build out workflows without touching your IDE.

We ran a collection of lightning talks in our first physical .NET Oxford event since lockdown began in March 2020. I took the opportunity to talk about something I'd been experimenting with recently - Postman Flows.

My use case was simple, I had a set of information available in an API that I wanted to import into Kontent.ai. Postman Flows allowed me to do this quickly, without going through the ceremony of creating a new project in VS Code.

The talk is available on the .NET Oxford YouTube channel, or you can watch it here.

Using the Sync API in Kontent.ai

The Sync API from Kontent.ai optimises content synchronisation by providing content deltas from a specific point in time, alleviating API workload. It complements webhooks, enabling multiple applications to monitor content changes at flexible intervals. It allows us to track changes such as new language versions and content items, content model adjustments, workflow updates and basic content updates.

Using the REST Client in Visual Studio Code

Getting ready to test a new service or API for your project is a common requirement. Normally we’d just create something in PostMan or run a curl command straight from the terminal. But what if you could do something that becomes part of your project in source control instead, wouldn’t that be pretty neat? This is where the REST Client for Visual Studio Code comes in useful.