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Better User Experiences and More Robust Applications with Polly 2

by Jason Roberts

In this course, we learn how to use the open source .NET Polly library to automatically retry operations rather than failing on the first exception.

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you’ll know how to effectively and easily handle temporary transient errors in applications and provide great user experiences by creating more robust and resilient applications that don’t interrupt the user unnecessarily. Transient errors such as temporary network connectivity problems or fleeting database problems can cause more users to report errors and more error log entries that can waste valuable developer time. In this course, we learn how to use the open source .NET Polly library to automatically retry operations rather than failing on the first exception.

About the author

With over 15 years of experience in both frontend and backend software development, Jason Roberts is a freelance developer, trainer, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing, is the author of several books, and writes at his blog DontCodeTired.com. Jason is an open source contributor and in addition to enterprise software development, he has designed and developed Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.

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