Case Study: Sling achieves 70% faster deployment cycles with Postman

Sling TV/ DISH Network makes 70% improvement in deployment cycle with Postman

Sling TV, part of DISH Network, needed a faster, more collaborative way to test APIs across multiple client types, devices, and protocols. Their teams were using a mix of tools like Swagger and cURL, and gRPC data was difficult for both technical and non-technical users to understand, which slowed productivity and made API governance harder. Postman API Platform was used to centralize API work for teams including Metadata, DVR, and Real-Time Notifications.

With Postman, Sling TV streamlined functional validation, documentation, testing, and collaboration through collections, environments, workspaces, and shared cloud-based workflows. Postman also made gRPC and REST easier to use and helped teams test independently, reduce onboarding time by 50% to 60%, improve SRE productivity by 30%, and cut deployment cycles by 70%, with new feature releases moving from roughly every three months to weekly or fortnightly.

Sling

Pavan Thalak

VP of Software Engineering