Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
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Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
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Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#2Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#3Congrats to the Akita team! Repository is 2 years old. That's a pretty quick exit.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#4Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
It's an absolutely crazy valuation for the product / industry. Ultimately they're competing with free & good enough. What's their moat?
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#5Congrats to the Akita team! Repository is 2 years old. That's a pretty quick exit.
jean yang is pretty much an industry legend at this point, and was hyperfocused on her specific kind of o11y (ebpf based drop-in traffic monitoring) which is an obviously important part of an overall o11y product suite that i think many players would either have to build or buy. i imagine she had her pick of acquirers.
edit: check out her interviews! crazy impressive https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/jean-yang/
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#6Congrats to the Akita team! Repository is 2 years old. That's a pretty quick exit.
jean yang is pretty much an industry legend at this point, and was hyperfocused on her specific kind of o11y (ebpf based drop-in traffic monitoring) which is an obviously important part of an overall o11y product suite that i think many players would either have to build or buy. i imagine she had her pick of acquirers. edit: check out her interviews! crazy impressive https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/jean-yang…
o18y = "observability" to save you a click.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#7Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
Now they are forcing to register to their platform to continue using the collections for free. So most of the users will have to enter their data, or just leave the product (difficult, there's not that much alternative)
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#8I have never used Postman, but I am curious, how useful or good, if any, their product is? given the recent bashing it received for being over-valued and being just a wrapper around curl. If people like it and are willing to pay for it, isn't its valuation justified, which I think is true for any startup in general.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#9Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#10Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
It's an absolutely crazy valuation for the product / industry. Ultimately they're competing with free & good enough. What's their moat?
As long as they're approximately the only "enterprise" option, that's a moat all by itself. No comment on the valuation, but it makes for a very resilient business.