The rise of APIs means that it’s easier than ever to build software. Put together a few API calls and now you have a new feature. Unfortunately, the rise of APIs has made debugging software harder than ever. Seemingly simple modern apps are now complex, distributed systems full of API calls to external services and organizations. In this talk, we’ll explore a simpler approach for debugging production issues in an API-first world. Instead of requiring all software builders to become fluent in debugging distributed systems, we’ll take an API-first debugging approach that focuses on finding and fixing issues at the API level. At the end of the talk, Jean Yang will give a sneak peak of what this workflow looks like in Postman’s new Insights product, now in open beta.