June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 2m
English
Many of us have been curious about the representation of a Microservice by a hexagon. The reason for this is the inspiration behind the architectural pattern that drives Microservices – the hexagonal architecture. This pattern is also popularly known as ports and adapters in some parts of the globe. In a hexagonal architecture pattern, the code application logic is insulated with an isolation perimeter. This insulation helps a Microservice be unaware of the outside world. The insulation opens specific ports for establishing communication channels to and from the application code. Consuming applications can write adapters against these ports to communicate with the Microservice. The following diagram ...
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