Forge is an independent publication covering developer tools, infrastructure, and the business of building software. We publish practical analysis for the engineers, founders, and operators building the tools that other developers use.
Every piece targets a real question our audience is already working through: how to price a developer tool, how to choose a distribution channel for an SDK, how to measure developer activation, when to open-source a commercial product, and what separates the tools that stick from the ones that don't.
Editorial standards: each piece is submitted by an industry professional — a founder, infrastructure engineer, or developer-tool operator with direct experience of the question being answered. Our editorial team then edits for technical accuracy, structure, and clarity before publication. We cite primary sources (code, benchmarks, post-mortems) where claims are non-obvious and we disclose any commercial relationships when they exist.
We are not affiliated with any vendor. We do not run sponsored posts. New pieces publish weekly.