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📖 Carolopedia › AdapterGuide page
📖What it means
The one piece of code that knows how to talk to a particular vendor. Everything vendor-specific lives there and nowhere else, which is what makes a provider swappable instead of woven through the estate.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Model
The adapter is the plumbing; the model is what answers through it.
Not: Shim
An adapter faces OUTWARD to a vendor; a shim faces inward between our own parts.
🗣️Also called
provider moduleconnectordriver