Skip to content

Tools & Technologies

This section contains reference documentation for tools and technologies used in the Forge platform ecosystem.


📚 Tools by Category

☁️ Cloud/SaaS

  • Azure - Microsoft's cloud platform offering services like computing, storage, databases, AI, and networking
  • Azure DevOps Services - Cloud-based platform for CI/CD, version control, and work tracking
  • Dynatrace - Software intelligence platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing application performance
  • Terraform Cloud - Managed service for infrastructure automation at scale
  • WireMock - Hosted service for mocking and simulating APIs

🛠️ Development Tools

  • Kiota - Tool for generating strongly-typed client code from OpenAPI descriptions
  • OpenTelemetry - Open-source framework for collecting telemetry data like traces, metrics, and logs
  • Project Templates - .NET CLI templates for creating standardized project structures
  • SAIF CLI - Command line tool for automating SAIF platform development tasks
  • Terraform - Infrastructure as Code tool for defining and provisioning infrastructure
  • TypeSpec - Language for defining data models and generating schemas and API specifications

🖥️ Local Development

  • Aspire - Framework for building observable, production-ready .NET cloud-native applications
  • Docker Desktop - Application for building, sharing, and running containerized applications

💻 .NET Tools

  • Entity Framework - Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for .NET database operations