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The Role of APIs in Delivering a Gig Marketplace

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Learn how Urban Company is leveraging APIs to deliver a gig marketplace that has become Asia's largest home-services platform.

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Kin Lane

Kin Lane

Chief Evangelist

Postman

Raghav Chandra

Raghav Chandra

Co-founder

Urban Company

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Founded in November 2014, Urban Company is Asia's largest home-services platform. The company offers consumers a range of in-home services such as beauty and spa, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, and painting through its mobile app and website. Urban Company operates in 35 cities in India, the UAE, Singapore, Australia, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Raghav Chandra from Urban Company to talk about the role of APIs in delivering a gig marketplace and establishing a scalable, evolvable, and opinionated microservices approach.

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