Dependency Lifecycle Management in Go
Introduction
Lifecycle management ensures that application components like servers, databases, and background workers are correctly initialized, started in the right order, and gracefully stopped.
Go developers typically wire dependencies manually, instead of relying on heavy frameworks or reflection based dependency injection. This approach improves readability and reduces hidden behavior, but it also shifts the burden of managing component interactions and lifecycle sequencing onto the developer.
As applications scale, the lack of built-in orchestration increases the risk of subtle bugs and inconsistent shutdown behavior.