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Published inNov 2023
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Muhammad Afzal
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Muhammad Afzal

Muhammad Afzal is a senior software engineer, with more than 14 years of experience working on web-based and IoT systems in multinational organizations. He always enjoys working and solving real-world business problems with technology. He provides freelance services to IoT-based product companies to write technical reviews and projects, and he also provides consultancy to organizations. In his free time, Muhammad creates videos and courses for YouTube and Udemy. He also runs a maker movement in his region for young students to boost their interest in adopting the latest technologies.
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Initial exploration – test drive using Postman

Before diving into the SDK, we will try the naked REST APIs endpoints using Postman, a tool that helps developers to debug requests/responses for other programming-language platforms not available as SDKs. Postman is a well-known tool among backend developers and is used to expose API requests/responses without any coding. Postman also helps developers to analyze responses via a graphical user interface (GUI).

Download Postman from https://www.postman.com/, choosing the correct version for your operating system. Before getting to work with Postman, firstly create a new workspace for the Arduino IoT Cloud to put all the requests in a separate group. To do this, click on Workspaces and then Create Workspace:

Figure 8.3 – Postman workspace

Figure 8.3 – Postman workspace

A new window will be opened: provide a workspace name and description and set the visibility policy according to your requirements. After creating the new...

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Muhammad Afzal

Muhammad Afzal is a senior software engineer, with more than 14 years of experience working on web-based and IoT systems in multinational organizations. He always enjoys working and solving real-world business problems with technology. He provides freelance services to IoT-based product companies to write technical reviews and projects, and he also provides consultancy to organizations. In his free time, Muhammad creates videos and courses for YouTube and Udemy. He also runs a maker movement in his region for young students to boost their interest in adopting the latest technologies.
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