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title: "Postman Best Practices | Postman"
description: "Comprehensive API development guidance from Postman's co-founders, including patterns for API collaboration, testing, governance, and monitoring."
url: https://www.postman.com/postman-best-practices/
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# Postman Best Practices | Postman

> Comprehensive API development guidance from Postman's co-founders, including patterns for API collaboration, testing, governance, and monitoring.

## Postman Best Practices

Building quality APIs has never been more important. At Postman, we believe being API-first is the key to innovation in the AI era. We built Postman Best Practices to share the foundational ideas Postman is built on and enable you to do your best work.

Written by Postman co-founders Abhinav Asthana (CEO) and Ankit Sobti (Field CTO).

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## Types of APIs, Workspaces, and Collaboration Models

A multi-part guide to the foundational concepts behind building quality APIs: the types of APIs and how they differ, how workspaces organize work, and the collaboration models that keep teams aligned across the API lifecycle.

The full guide, including testing, governance, and monitoring patterns, is rendered live on the page at [postman.com/postman-best-practices](https://www.postman.com/postman-best-practices/).