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Spotinst uses Postman for everyday development

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Spotinst, an autonomous compute management platform, helps companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix cut their cloud compute costs by 80%. Spotinst’s platform uses predictive analytics to provision and manage workloads on the most efficient VMs available with your existing cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, etc.). With these predictive algorithms, Spotinst’s platform is able to leverage massive discounts on spare capacity offered by cloud providers while still guaranteeing 100% availability. However, demonstrating the functionality and efficiency of the Spotinst API to clients and helping them understand how to trigger the API was a challenge. Additionally, the team needed a way to investigate client issues and bugs, reproduce and document the specific API behavior, and communicate the issue to the engineer who will be tasked with development. Read More
About Customer	Spotinst is an autonomous compute management platform that was founded in 2015. It helps companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix cut their cloud compute costs by 80%. Spotinst’s platform uses predictive analytics to provision and manage workloads on the most efficient VMs available with your existing cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, etc.). With these predictive algorithms, Spotinst’s platform is able to leverage massive discounts on spare capacity offered by cloud providers while still guaranteeing 100% availability. Spotinst is located in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, New York City, and London. The company has a development team of 40 engineers who use development languages such as Java, Angular, Node.js, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. Read More
Solution	Spotinst adopted Postman for everyday development. The Spotinst engineering team created Postman Collections that mirror the Spotinst endpoints. Using Postman environments, every developer can easily switch between their own local development, staging, and production environment. The engineers have also written scripts within their Postman Collections to simulate workflows that rely on the Spotinst endpoints. One of their scripts is used to create a preconfigured environment to initialize any variables that would be required in running the collection. Using Postman environments and scripts together, the engineers can simulate common scenarios across various server environments and automate their API testing. The customer success team at Spotinst also uses Postman to help customers with the Spotinst API, showing them how to trigger the API very easily. They also use Postman to investigate client issues and bugs. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Spotinst, an autonomous compute management platform, helps companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix cut their cloud compute costs by 80%. Spotinst’s platform uses predictive analytics to provision and manage workloads on the most efficient VMs available with your existing cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, etc.). With these predictive algorithms, Spotinst’s platform is able to leverage massive discounts on spare capacity offered by cloud providers while still guaranteeing 100% availability. However, demonstrating the functionality and efficiency of the Spotinst API to clients and helping them understand how to trigger the API was a challenge. Additionally, the team needed a way to investigate client issues and bugs, reproduce and document the specific API behavior, and communicate the issue to the engineer who will be tasked with development.

About Customer

Spotinst is an autonomous compute management platform that was founded in 2015. It helps companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix cut their cloud compute costs by 80%. Spotinst’s platform uses predictive analytics to provision and manage workloads on the most efficient VMs available with your existing cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, etc.). With these predictive algorithms, Spotinst’s platform is able to leverage massive discounts on spare capacity offered by cloud providers while still guaranteeing 100% availability. Spotinst is located in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, New York City, and London. The company has a development team of 40 engineers who use development languages such as Java, Angular, Node.js, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

Solution

Spotinst adopted Postman for everyday development. The Spotinst engineering team created Postman Collections that mirror the Spotinst endpoints. Using Postman environments, every developer can easily switch between their own local development, staging, and production environment. The engineers have also written scripts within their Postman Collections to simulate workflows that rely on the Spotinst endpoints. One of their scripts is used to create a preconfigured environment to initialize any variables that would be required in running the collection. Using Postman environments and scripts together, the engineers can simulate common scenarios across various server environments and automate their API testing. The customer success team at Spotinst also uses Postman to help customers with the Spotinst API, showing them how to trigger the API very easily. They also use Postman to investigate client issues and bugs.

Impact #1	The Spotinst engineering team created Postman Collections that mirror the Spotinst endpoints, allowing for easy switching between local development, staging, and production environments.
Impact #2	Engineers wrote scripts within their Postman Collections to simulate workflows that rely on the Spotinst endpoints, enabling them to simulate common scenarios across various server environments and automate their API testing.
Impact #3	The customer success team at Spotinst uses Postman to help customers with the Spotinst API, showing them how to trigger the API very easily.

Impact #1

The Spotinst engineering team created Postman Collections that mirror the Spotinst endpoints, allowing for easy switching between local development, staging, and production environments.

Impact #2

Engineers wrote scripts within their Postman Collections to simulate workflows that rely on the Spotinst endpoints, enabling them to simulate common scenarios across various server environments and automate their API testing.

Impact #3

The customer success team at Spotinst uses Postman to help customers with the Spotinst API, showing them how to trigger the API very easily.

Benefit #1	Cut cloud compute costs by 80% for companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix.

Benefit #1

Cut cloud compute costs by 80% for companies like Sony, HPE, and Wix.

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Spotinst uses Postman for everyday development

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