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Improving your C# Skills

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens
Book Image

Improving your C# Skills

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens

Overview of this book

This Learning Path shows you how to create high performing applications and solve programming challenges using a wide range of C# features. You’ll begin by learning how to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs, highlight common performance pitfalls, and apply strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You'll also study the importance of micro-services architecture for building fast applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. Then, you'll study the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code, and working with different types of test double, such as spies, mocks, and fakes. In addition to describing programming trade-offs, this Learning Path will also help you build a useful toolkit of techniques, including value caching, statistical analysis, and geometric algorithms. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan • Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7 by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt • The Modern C# Challenge by Rod Stephens
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
8
What to Know Before Getting Started
17
Files and Directories
18
Advanced C# and .NET Features
Index

Introduction to resilient applications


Developing applications with resiliency as an important factor always makes your customers happy. Today, applications are distributed by nature and involve lots of communication over the wire. Problems arise when the service is down or not responding on time due to network failure, which eventually leads to a delay before the client operation is terminated. The purpose of resiliency is to make your application recover from a failure and make it responsive again.

Complexity increases when you call one service and that service calls another service, and so on. In a long chain of operations, considering resiliency is important. This is the reason it is one of the most widely adopted principles in microservice architecture.

Resilient policies

Resilient policies are classified into two categories:

  • Reactive policies
  • Proactive policies

In this chapter, we will implement both reactive and proactive policies using the Polly framework, which can be used with .NET Core...