Challenge 3: Why Not Just One Tool? — Possible Solution ==================================================================== Two genuinely different situations where Postman isn't the best fit: 1. NO GUI AVAILABLE AT ALL. Postman is a graphical desktop application — it doesn't help at all when working over SSH on a remote server, inside a minimal CI runner, or in any environment with no display. cURL, being a plain command-line tool, works in every one of those places without needing anything installed beyond what's usually already there. 2. REQUEST DEFINITIONS NEED TO LIVE IN VERSION CONTROL, REVIEWABLE IN A DIFF. Postman collections live inside Postman's own app state (or a separately exported/synced JSON file, which is an extra step, not the default). A VS Code .http file is just a plain text file sitting directly in the project's Git repository — it shows up naturally in a pull request diff, gets code-reviewed the same as any other file, and needs no separate export/import step to stay in sync with the rest of the codebase. The broader point: Postman is genuinely excellent at what it does (exploration, organizing many related requests, chaining them together), but "does everything" isn't the same as "is the best tool for every situation" — this course's four-category structure exists specifically because each tool has a real, different strength, not because more tools are inherently better than fewer.