hate when I'm being asked like "have you heard of X architecture" and I never heard of it but it turns out that I was using it a lot and I just was asked about its fancy name

I was trying to understand this concept for over 1 week. Things became clear when you quoted the founder saying calling a database is no different than calling/using an external service. I guess we could call it "Adapter Pattern everywhere". I think this subject is being told way more complicated than it actually is, but you kept it fairly simple. Nice explanation!

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes Adapter Pattern everywhere sums it up nicely.

@prrs4809

Ай бұрын

Same here man, cheers for that quick expain!

Thanks for including the downsides [00:06:17] - think you nailed it there, basically it's over-engineering unless you have a damn good reason to use it, and frankly I think the terminology introduces more confusion instead of reducing it. Great explanation of what it is and the alleged benefits are.

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim!

Hands down this is the simplest explanation that I have ever seen. Excellent Presentation Alex!

@alexhyettdev

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Nice short and clear explanation. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. Your explanation is so clear and your animations are so helpful. The video is so clean. I can imagine the amount of work that goes into these videos. Thank you, Alex.

Best explanation of hexagonal architecture! Thank you very much! Keep it up!

Thank you for your high-quality content. I love how you explain complex concepts with minimum jargon.

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter!

Thanks for the explanation! This video really helps me!

Outstanding clarity.

from the perspective of an active learner, your channel is a treasure. thank you a lot, please don't stop doing what you're doing

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! I am glad you like my videos.

Thank you for this simple explanation. I know there might be a lot more details to it, but you beautifully managed to remove the noise so the core concepts (ports and adapters) could shine. Thank you very much.

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Thank you for commenting!

Glad I found this! I'd run across the "no interfaces for repositories" crowd and we'd adopted it at my last gig but in all of my personal work I prefered them for this exact reason. And I especially try to make the interface only have read/write or store/retrieve methods as much as possible to avoid business context dripping down into the repo code. It starts with repo method names that reflect business terminology to me. And for the past 5 years or so I've been bouncing back and forth about the input side as well. Seeing it all in this one pattern has given me some things to consider. Thanks. You have a new subscriber.

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting!

This is indeed simple explanation. Thank you !

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! I am glad it helped.

Great video. For me Clean Architecture and Hexagonal Architecture are just different ways to achieve the same thing: decoupling input and output and increasing feature cohesion. /subbed

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes they are both good options.

@sylvereleipertz955

8 ай бұрын

That's 2 words for the same concept

High quality explanation, thank you and good job!

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it!

This is simply fantastic, many thanks sir

Great, simple and clear explanation, keep it up!👍

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Great video - one of the clearest explanations I've seen! Nice work! 👍

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan! I am having fun creating the animations. I am enjoying your videos too!

@danclarkeuk

Жыл бұрын

Thanks too. I'm finding editing KZread videos way more fun than podcasts! 😂 But perhaps that's just because video editing is so new at the moment, so a lot to learn!

Great video! I hope you keep going and get the recognition you deserve!

@alexhyettdev

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🤞

Great video. Watched it a while ago and I keep coming back for a refresher.

@alexhyettdev

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for the video!

Very clear for a newbie as me. Thank you so much

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you for the very clear explanation and intuitive presentation

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! I am glad it was easy to understand.

Great explanations, thank you! I also have the same understanding, recursive hexagons

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

👍 thank you. I am gad you liked it.

Awesome content! Keep going bro!

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Hoang!

Me encanto el video, mil garcias por la explicación

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

De nada, me alegro de que lo hayas disfrutado.

Wonderful explanation !

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super! Thank you, was really helpful.

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video! Won a new subscriber!

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Great explanation dude, as always

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Very Good explanation. Thank you

@alexhyettdev

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

You are Nutshell explainer. I appreciate your skills. Kudos to your Technical Perspective!

@alexhyettdev

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I like that, maybe I should have nutshell explainer as my tagline!

Hey Alex - Just found your channel and subscribed. Great content and really nice job on your production! Kudos from the founder of Spring Framework Guru!

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Hey Alex, Fantastic content, you explain these concepts in a clear and concise manner which is great. What is your opinion on using these patterns on the frontend? I have a large Vue app and I'm trying to decide between Hex or DDD architecture. Do you have any suggestions?

Great content. Thank you. And nice plant behind you )

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! A little secret 🤫, it's not real 🤣. I am terrible with plants. I have always wanted a bonsai tree, but I knew if I had a real one, it wouldn't last very long!

@Mister_tea_

Жыл бұрын

@@alexhyettdev I see, it is a mock plant )

simply beautiful.

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

That brilliant 👏👏

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

the best explanation found over here, youtube

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

very informative

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, I am glad it helped.

thanks for this :)

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, I hope it was helpful!

Hi Alex. Absolutely love the content you're putting out. Could you or anyone else point me to some sample code that is a good example of the ports and adapters pattern. Thanks in advance.

I have a question. Say if you’re hitting an external api service to do some action, like create a deploy and I have followed the port adapter pattern. Now, say in the future that we switch to another api service with a completely different schema for creating the deployment. Do we leave the interface intact as it is, since the adapter pattern lets us transformer the data? What if the transformation is too awkward, i.e the new api requires more information than the previous api?

Great explanation, but it'll be good to have sample code examples to reinforce this concept😊

super

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Can you do some basic data structure to real world usage examples?

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Sure I will add that to my content list. Thanks for the suggestion.

I program mostly in OOP-languages and sometimes I feel like patterns like this just provide wrappers around I/O that functional languages use types for. Good explanation though much appreciated.

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Yes I should probably do a video on functional vs OOP languages.

So is it prerequisite the domain driven design in order to have an hexagonal architecture? If I am in a monolithic application, is this correct to split it as presentation-logic-database model and then think of domain driven logic? How to think in old legacy monolithic applications?

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

DDD isn't a prerequisite, it is just helpful when it comes to splitting a system into different microservices. You want each hexagon to be self-contained, and be able to work in isolation. That is just easier to do if it contains a whole domain and doesn't have to rely on other systems too much. I would personally start with domains first rather than presentation-logic-database modal. For example, I have seen teams take things like auditing out of their monolithic application and create an auditing domain. This then gets reused by all other applications that need auditing capabilities. The team will often then expand this to provide UI and other capabilities. The domains usually come first.

@dralps

Жыл бұрын

I think, inside the monolith, you can create little hexagons, encapsulating smaller domain concepts So, the answer is yes

This is a good explanation, but.. Isn’t this a micro-services architecture, where the applications all talk json( for example) and the adapter only transform json to mysql( for example) for the databases, or strings/bits etc for filesystem buffers? The adapter will always change when tou pick another service to work with the app. Cool name though. Thanks

Wow just want to leave a comment show I was here early once you blow up

@alexhyettdev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🤞🏻

@AmexL

Жыл бұрын

Same, I’m in the sub-3k group.

How is this any different from separating interface from implementation? Is there anything new here that hasn't been already been preached for decades?

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

That is essentially what it is but explicitly making sure that your core code only relies on interfaces it owns and external components interact with a different interface. The idea is to completely decouple your inputs and outputs.

Ports and adapters, all day

I just did a revisit of this video. 5 months later, lol. I would want to add something though. You talk about whether someone should use HA, especially when they have a complex or large application, but don't list any alternatives for when they don't. For example, for a simple microservice, a simple MVC or 3 Layer + VSA approach could suffice.

@alexhyettdev

9 ай бұрын

Yes good point. I assumed if someone was looking into hexagonal architecture they would know about the alternatives. Always good not to assume anything though!

He actually pronounced "hexagonal" properly. Also, it's a hexagon because hexagons are the bestagons

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

Lol, how do other people pronounce "hexagonal"?!

Seems obvious but that there is a word for it

Adapters sound like Facades. Am I missing something here? 🤔

@alexhyettdev

10 ай бұрын

That’s essentially what they are. The Ports are facades as well but are written by the application. It is facades talking to facades for maximum abstraction.

Since when trivial interfaces start to be called as "hexagonal architecture"?

@abellix

3 ай бұрын

Thanks God someone else is saying that as well

I don't get the second con. Clean architecture or not, it make not difference to run it locally. You can have monolithic application with clean architecture, you would start it exactly the same

@alexhyettdev

8 ай бұрын

It is more for when you have multiple components running as separate microservices as mentioned in the video. Yes for 1 component using clean architecture there is no difference.

I was so happy to see people want to talk about hexagonal architecture. But while you made some absolutely true statements about it, so did you also make a lot of wrong ones, who would drive people away from it for the wrong reasons.

@alexhyettdev

10 ай бұрын

It’s important to show both sides, it isn’t always the right architecture for everyone. There are always ways to mitigate some of the negatives it just depends how you design it.

@FlaviusAspra

20 күн бұрын

​@alexhyettdev the "other side" should be the correct "other side", so that people make informed decisions, not uninformed ones.

Legenardy explanation, I think a lot of people do not really explain this software architecture clearly, but your explain is super clear and helpful.

@alexhyettdev

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, I try my best. I am glad it was clear for you. I should do some more of these 🙂