Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

Final thoughts on goals

By now, you might be seeing a pattern. All of these goals will lead to code that is easy to read, understand, test, and extend—that is to say, code that is maintainable. While these may seem like selfish or perfectionist goals, I would argue that it is imperative for the business in the long term. In the short term, delivering value to the users, typically in the form of features, is essential. But when this is done poorly, the rate at which features can be added, the number of programmers required to add features, and the number of bugs that are introduced because of changes will all increase and cost the business more than the cost of developing good code.

So now that we have defined the goals that we have for our ...