The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
Summary
The article argues that mainstream API tooling (Postman, Insomnia, Thunder Client) has degraded due to cloud lock-in, performance bloat, and corporate direction, pushing developers toward lightweight, open-source alternatives like Bruno. It advocates local-first, Git-native workflows and a modular, performance-focused design as the ideal API tool, and critiques the current ecosystem while hinting at future possibilities.