Build on hyper

The hyper Service Framework is built using the Ports and Adapters architecture. Hyper's core business logic is driven by a Driving Adapter

The general idea with Ports and Adapters is that the business logic layer defines the models and rules on how they interact with each other, and also a set of consumer-agnostic entry and exit points to and from the business layer. These entry and exit points are called "Ports". All components external to the business layer, interact by way and are interacted with through, the Ports. A Port defines an api, and knows nothing about the inner mechanism -- that's an Adapter's job.

Adapters perform the actual communication between external actors and the business layer. There are generally two types of Adapters: "Driving Adapters" and "Driven Adapters".

A driving adapter calls into the business layer, by way of a Port. The driving adapters can generally be thought of as the "presentation layer". It could be a web application, a desktop application, a CLI, anything that initiates some action on the business domain.

A driven adapter is called by the business layer, to interact with some backend tool, ie. a database, storage bucket, cache, etc. The business layer calls into the driven adapter by way of the Port. Driven adapters implement the Port defined by the business layer.

So the flow generally looks like

Driving Adapter <--> Port <--> Business Layer <--> Port <--> Driven Adapter