> This leads us to my favorite architecture for serverless apps: hexagonal architecture, alternatively called ports and adapters. As it’s creator, Alistair Cockburn, explains, the hexagonal architecture allows 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.

https://vacationtracker.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/hexago...

This seems like a new buzzword for an existing (but still very good) thing, abstraction layers.

The original article (http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture) is down though, so it's entirely possible it was was written in the late 90s when these practices started becoming widespread particularly with Java and Gang of Four (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns).

Edit: dzone says 'Hexagonal Architecture' was from 2005. https://dzone.com/articles/hexagonal-architecture-what-is-it... Make of that what you will.