Why your code is hard to test (and how to fix it) | Issue #81


If your code is hard to test, hard to reuse, and hard to change, you’re probably hardcoding your dependencies.

It’s one of the most common architectural problems I see in Python code, even in production systems.

In this week's video, I take a small but realistic example, a data pipeline that loads, transforms, and exports some records, and show you how Dependency Injection can turn it from a rigid mess into something clean, testable, and modular.

No frameworks required.

You’ll learn:

  • Why hardcoded logic breaks your codebase
  • How to refactor to constructor-based DI
  • How to write your own tiny DI container (in just a few lines)
  • And how frameworks like FastAPI use DI under the hood


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Cheers,

Arjan


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