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Also known as
Ports and Adapters Clean Architecture Onion Architecture
Intent
Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases.
Applicability
Use Hexagonal Architecture pattern when
- it is important that the application is fully testable
- you use Domain Driven Design methodology and/or Microservices architectural style