[python-uk] hexagonal Django

[Menno Smits]

On 2012-12-04 14:46, Jonathan Hartley wrote:

> I haven't, yet, but I'm thinking of refactoring a vertical slice of our
> monster Django app into this style, and I'd love to hear if you think
> it's crazy / brilliant / obvious / old-hat, etc.

Since you mentioned this a few weeks back, I've been thinking about this 
approach a lot and doing a fair bit of background reading on the idea. I 
think it falls in to the brilliantly-obvious category, at least for any 
app of significant size. I plan to start using these ideas for my next 
big work project (not Django however). Previously, I've tended towards 
less flexible, harder-to-test, layered architectures.

My main concern is that I can see this approach resulting in a lot of 
extra code to support the interfaces between the core application and 
the peripheral components. This is probably worth the cost however. I 
guess I'll see once I use the approach in anger.

Menno