The document discusses dependency injection in AngularJS 1.x and Angular 2. In AngularJS 1.x, services, factories, and providers control how components are registered and instantiated. Services are always singletons, while factories and providers allow more control over instantiation. Angular 2 introduces the concepts of injectors, providers, and dependencies to describe how dependencies are created and injected. Providers are recipes that map tokens to factory functions to create objects. Angular 2 provides more control over dependency lifecycles through features like factories, transient instances, scoped injectors, and component bindings.