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Agile emerged at a time when companies built and commonly released software in lengthy cycles of 6+ months. Each cycle had an explicit architecture or design phase involving more experienced developers, frequently named "Architects." Architects, responsible for architecture, made decisions that constrained development teams. Today's world of agile software development looks very different with software continuously being released - often on a weekly, daily or even hourly basis. Bu...

This article is the first part of an upcoming series that provides a practical introduction to Dependency Injection in a manner that immediately permits you to realize its many benefits without being hampered down by theory. The concept of Dependency Injection is, at its core, a fundamentally simple notion. It is, however, commonly presented in a manner alongside the more theoretical concepts of Inversion of Control, Dependency Inversion, the SOLID Principles, and so forth. To make it as easy a...