Building resilient .NET applications for the modern age

What if a simple network glitch could cascade and crash your entire system? Learn how to build truly resilient .NET applications that recover gracefully from failure.

#1about 4 minutes

The high cost of ignoring system resilience

Most technology leaders are aware of resilience issues but fail to act, despite outages costing millions of dollars.

#2about 5 minutes

Understanding the key layers of application resilience

True resilience requires a multi-layered approach, considering infrastructure, architecture choices like microservices, and application-level communication patterns.

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Introducing the Polly library for .NET resilience

The Polly library provides a fluent, thread-safe way to implement resilience strategies, avoiding manual and error-prone retry logic.

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Implementing the retry pattern with exponential backoff

Configure the retry strategy to handle transient failures with exponential backoff and jitter to avoid creating traffic spikes.

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Preventing cascading failures with the circuit breaker

Use the circuit breaker pattern to temporarily stop sending requests to a failing service, giving it time to recover.

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Managing request throughput with the rate limiter

Control the number of concurrent requests sent to a downstream service using Polly's rate limiter to prevent overloads.

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Integrating Polly resilience patterns with HttpClient

Use Polly's extension methods to add resilience handlers directly to the HttpClient pipeline, separating resilience configuration from business logic.

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Validating system robustness with chaos engineering

Intentionally inject failures, latency, and unexpected outcomes into your system using chaos engineering to test if your resilience strategies work as expected.

#9about 6 minutes

Simplifying setup with Microsoft's resilience extensions

The Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience package provides a pre-configured, standard resilience pipeline for HttpClient, simplifying setup and promoting best practices.