szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III

Hi @john26 ,

I use Bruno quite often these days and it become the go-to Postman replacement for engineering-heavy workflows specifically because collections live as plain files in your repo. For someone working across Databricks, ADF, and Azure services with Azure DevOps pipelines already in place, this maps naturally - your API collections version alongside your code, PRs review API changes.

Insomnia is decent but has had some turbulence (Kong acquisition, then the open-source pivot back to community edition) so I'd be cautious about long-term stability there.

For pipeline/automation-heavy work, CLI-first makes more sense than any GUI tool

If you're already scripting in Azure DevOps YAML, httpx (Python) or curl + jq in pipeline steps often beats any dedicated tool for hitting model endpoints or internal service APIs. You get full control, no licensing concerns, and it's testable in the same way your other code is.