The document discusses separating business logic from frameworks in application development. It introduces the hexagonal architecture pattern, which places the business logic at the center within its own domain layer. This separates it from interfaces to external systems like databases, web servers, and frameworks. The business logic focuses on modeling real-world entities and rules within the domain layer. External interfaces are handled by separate ports and adapter classes that interface with but do not depend on the specific persistence or web implementation layers. Examples of implementing this pattern for a shopping cart application are shown, with domain models, repositories, and services.