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
Hexagon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hexagon?
Blender
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
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