I've stopped using or caring about IoC containers. I used to use them because they were so quick and easy and they kept my code looking pristine and beautiful. Now I do manual dependency injection and the results on non-trivial systems are very interesting and look even more beautiful. At the end of the post we'll examine a little bit more of why I left them behind. In the meantime, I've probably left you wondering what the heck I do to keep things from getting out of hand. "What about the times when you have to inject a dependency through five other objects before it gets to where you need it??" Yeah, we'll get to that.