Evolutionary architectural patterns with Clean and Hexagonal Architecture

2025-09-15 - 2025-09-16

Evolutionäre Architekturmuster mit Clean und Hexagonal Architecture - Matthias Eschhold - Deutsch

This training helps you to recognize problems of layered architecture and provides you with a toolbox of exercises that you can use to implement clean and hexagonal architecture. After the training, you will be able to continuously test your architecture and apply the evolutionary architecture mindset.

When expanding existing systems, we repeatedly stumble across rigid architectures that cannot be expanded or even grown systems that no longer allow any expansion that matches the architecture, as there is no longer any recognizable architecture. As a result, the underlying business model can no longer evolve. But how can we prevent this scenario? How can we implement an architecture in our software system that can withstand the evolution of the system?

Both the Clean and the Hexagonal Architecture promise a clear separation of the functional domain from the infrastructural aspects. The core idea, the Ports and Adapters Pattern, is powerful and helps to realize technical, functional and organizational flexibility in the software architecture. Building on this, we will examine the Clean and Hexagonal Architectures in the context of Evolutionary Architecture and present implementation options for Fitness Functions for these architecture patterns.

In the training “Evolutionary Software Architecture” we will talk about similarities, differences, benefits, trade-offs and pragmatic development approaches for these architecture patterns. Using a demo application in Java, we will analyze code examples together and implement them ourselves using a functional example. We will use the building blocks of tactical domain-driven design and learn how to implement them embedded in the clean architecture. You will be given access to the demo application with Spring Boot and Java and will have the opportunity to study the topic in more depth afterwards.

Agenda

**Day 1

Software architecture as structure and methodology

Ports & adapters as architectural patterns

Creating an isolated domain

Hexagonal Architecture

Clean Architecture

**Day 2

**Mapping strategies

Domain-Driven Modularization

**Evolutionary architecture

Your Trainers

Matthias Eschhold

Matthias Eschhold

Architecture, Domain-driven Design

  • Evolutionary architectural patterns with Clean and Hexagonal Architecture

Matthias is the lead architect for e-mobility at EnBW AG. With his experience in software architecture and domain-driven design, he and his team are shaping the IT landscape and team topology of e-mobility. Despite his focus on strategic and socio-technical architecture, Matthias still feels at home with Java and Spring Boot at the code level, implementing prototypes and performing refactorings. Matthias has been sharing his passion for architecture as a trainer for many years. His strength lies in hands-on trainings that not only teach architectural patterns and principles, but also take into account the realities of projects. He is always looking for ways to make software architecture suitable for everyday use.

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