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Postman monitors help The League sleep better at night

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	The League is a social and dating mobile application, available in several cities in the United States on iOS and Android. It’s an exclusive members-only swiping app aimed at professionals, with the goal of making meeting people a better experience. As a mobile-first company, APIs are the cornerstone of their product. The League engineering team shares collections and folders in Postman as a way to reference and organize the latest versions of their APIs. However, they needed a way to ensure that their APIs were functioning correctly at all times, and to alert them immediately if there were any issues. Read More
About Customer	Launched in 2015, The League is a social, mobile dating app designed for aspiring power couples. Known for its selective admissions-based model, The League uses data and social graphs from both Facebook and LinkedIn to fuel its proprietary algorithm. The app is available in several cities in the United States on iOS and Android. The League's development team consists of 10 engineers who use Node.js, Postgres, Python, and AWS. As a mobile-first company, APIs are the cornerstone of their product. Read More
Solution	The League uses Postman Pro as a knowledge base for their APIs. If someone on their team wants to use a cURL request, they use the Postman code feature to generate a code snippet of the cURL request from the current version of the request in Postman. If someone on their team wants to test the API, they send the requests using Postman as the client along with a Postman environment to configure the root domain for each endpoint. The League also uses Postman monitors to send a network request every 5 minutes to test things that would affect their mobile app users in production. They also set up the built-in integration with PagerDuty to alert them when a monitor triggers an unexpected response. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

The League is a social and dating mobile application, available in several cities in the United States on iOS and Android. It’s an exclusive members-only swiping app aimed at professionals, with the goal of making meeting people a better experience. As a mobile-first company, APIs are the cornerstone of their product. The League engineering team shares collections and folders in Postman as a way to reference and organize the latest versions of their APIs. However, they needed a way to ensure that their APIs were functioning correctly at all times, and to alert them immediately if there were any issues.

About Customer

Launched in 2015, The League is a social, mobile dating app designed for aspiring power couples. Known for its selective admissions-based model, The League uses data and social graphs from both Facebook and LinkedIn to fuel its proprietary algorithm. The app is available in several cities in the United States on iOS and Android. The League's development team consists of 10 engineers who use Node.js, Postgres, Python, and AWS. As a mobile-first company, APIs are the cornerstone of their product.

Solution

The League uses Postman Pro as a knowledge base for their APIs. If someone on their team wants to use a cURL request, they use the Postman code feature to generate a code snippet of the cURL request from the current version of the request in Postman. If someone on their team wants to test the API, they send the requests using Postman as the client along with a Postman environment to configure the root domain for each endpoint. The League also uses Postman monitors to send a network request every 5 minutes to test things that would affect their mobile app users in production. They also set up the built-in integration with PagerDuty to alert them when a monitor triggers an unexpected response.

Impact #1	Postman Pro serves as a knowledge base for The League's APIs, allowing the engineering team to reference and organize the latest versions of their APIs.
Impact #2	Postman's code feature allows the team to generate cURL request code snippets from the current version of the request in Postman.
Impact #3	Postman monitors send a network request every 5 minutes to test things that would affect their mobile app users in production.

Impact #1

Postman Pro serves as a knowledge base for The League's APIs, allowing the engineering team to reference and organize the latest versions of their APIs.

Impact #2

Postman's code feature allows the team to generate cURL request code snippets from the current version of the request in Postman.

Impact #3

Postman monitors send a network request every 5 minutes to test things that would affect their mobile app users in production.

Benefit #1	Postman monitors send a network request every 5 minutes, providing constant monitoring of the APIs.
Benefit #2	Immediate alerts are sent to the team if a monitor triggers an unexpected response, allowing for quick resolution of any issues.

Benefit #1

Postman monitors send a network request every 5 minutes, providing constant monitoring of the APIs.

Benefit #2

Immediate alerts are sent to the team if a monitor triggers an unexpected response, allowing for quick resolution of any issues.

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Postman monitors help The League sleep better at night

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