The acquisition will also help Postman close a long-standing operational gap between vendors, who specialize in developer experience, and API management vendors, he said.
While API management platforms such as Apigee, MuleSoft, and Kong remain strong in runtime governance (policies, monetization, multi-gateway, hybrid), vendors such as ReadMe, Redocly, and Stoplight who specialize in developer experience remain strong in documentation and design-first workflows.
“By bringing idiomatic SDKs and tailored docs into the same ecosystem where APIs are designed and tested, Postman offers a developer-led lifecycle from design, test, docs, SDKs, and adoption, rather than gateway-first governance. This is a differentiated path that complements gateways,” Dewan said, noting that many enterprises still stitch together docs and SDK generation with separate vendors.
