What is Hexagon?
It is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications, APIs or queue consumers) that run inside a cloud platform.
Hexagon is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
Hexagon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hexagon's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hexagon?
Developers
13 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hexagon.
Hexagon's Features
- Simple to use
- Easy to hack
- Kotlin first
- HTTP server
- HTTP client
- Simple data store
- Messages publish/subscribe
- Templating support
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