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C# – How to use Polly to do retries

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Whenever you’re dealing with code that can run into transient errors, it’s a good idea to implement retries. Transient errors, by definition, are temporary and subsequent attempts should succeed. When you retry with a delay, it means you think the the transient error will go away by itself after a short period of time. When … Read more

C# – Thread-safe bool properties using Locks vs Interlocked

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The following bool property is not thread-safe. Why is this thread un-safe? Let’s say you have two threads running at the same time. One thread is reading the bool property, while the other thread is changing the value from false to true. It’s possible for the reader thread to get the stale value (false instead … Read more