Can anyone recommend a non-electron alternative to Postman?
Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
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Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#92Congrats 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…
Companies that pioneered the stateful reconstruction of APIs from raw network events -
- Netsil [0] (acquired by Nutanix) - Academic spin-out from UPenn
- Pixie Labs [1] (acquired by New Relic)
[0]: https://thenewstack.io/netsil-visualizes-performance-microse...
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/new-relic-acquires-kuberne...
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement: > As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unnecessary as you can easily build a similar system yourself by simply combining [tool A] with [tool B] and [tool C]. It's so simple! I'm not disagreeing with your point, but it misses the point that often the benefit of using a particular produc…
My comment is actually from the dropbox announcement many years ago. It actually is a meme. lol
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Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#94Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Classic HN response–"This is trivial to build"/"I could build this in a weekend". Setting valuation aside, clearly there is some non-negative value prop for some set of users who don't want to build everything themselves (as evidenced by the fact that they have a non-trivial number of paying users).
This is a meme from the dropbox announcement.
lol. /r/woosh on me. In calling out the meme, I became another meme.
"I am become pedant, destroyer of discourse."
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Postman is a classic victim of "Enshittification" to try to recoup the VC money. I prefer this VS Code plugin for the very simple stuff https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... I'm sure there's a gap for a "better postman" that's more complex that that, but a lot less encrusted than postman. However IMHO, the more complex scripted testing is better done in your main dev language Source:…
https://insomnia.rest/download Like Postman, without all the bullshit. Which is to say, like a few-versions-ago Postman.
I'm now looking at this one: https://www.usebruno.com/
The advantage of Bruno (and the VS code plugin) that storing data in "just a file" is friendly to keeping a local copy, and also to sharing, reviewing and versioning with existing tools (git).
How does insomnia handle that?
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a meme from the dropbox announcement.
lol. /r/woosh on me. In calling out the meme, I became another meme. "I am become pedant, destroyer of discourse."
haha. All good.
Here's the comment if you're curious.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#98Try as they might, I don't think Postman will ever be able to justify that $5.6bn valuation...
Does postman do anything curl doesn’t? When I was on onboarding at a job my pair started teaching me postman, which ended with me teaching them curl and them dropping postman. If you need to share queries, put them in version control!
> Does postman do anything curl doesn’t
Yes, a cursory examination of postman would tell you that.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#99Insomnia has always served me much better than postman
I tried insomnia for the first time the other day. The big missing bit is that you can't inherit authentication from the collection container, so all you're requests use the same oauth2 method or whatever. You need to set it up for each request in the collection.
Re: Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability
#100Can anyone recommend a non-electron alternative to Postman?
restclient for emacs is very nice.