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