Better User Experiences and More Robust Applications Pluralsight Course

13 July 2015 (0)

My new Pluralsight course was just published which shows how to use the open source Polly library.

Polly is a great library by Michael Wolfenden for configuring the automatic retrying of operations if exceptions occur. Transient errors such as the network being slow/unavailable for a small amount of time can normally result in errors surfacing to the user and/or into log files that need looking at.

By using one of the exception handling strategies that Polly provides, these transient exceptions can automatically be retried, preventing user errors and/or log entries.

There are four strategies:

  • Retry Forever
  • Retry
  • Wait and Retry
  • Circuit Breaker

Polly is configured in a fluent way, for example to use the Wait and Retry strategy to retry 3 times waiting 2, 4, and 6 seconds between retries:

Policy.Handle<some exception>()
      .WaitAndRetry(new[]
          {
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(4),
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(6)
          })
      .Execute(some action);

Check out the Polly GitHub repo, the NuGet package or the “Better User Experiences and More Robust Applications with Polly” Pluralsight course.

You can start watching with a Pluralsight free trial.

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