How to Implement HTTP Resilience Without Polly in .NET 10
Polly's maintenance fee starts 16 November 2026. See who pays, the free Microsoft route, Kevlar, and a tested Polly-free retry and circuit breaker in .NET 10.
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Polly's maintenance fee starts 16 November 2026. See who pays, the free Microsoft route, Kevlar, and a tested Polly-free retry and circuit breaker in .NET 10.
Use HttpClient in .NET 10 with IHttpClientFactory, keyed and typed clients, and AddStandardResilienceHandler, with real socket and POST retry test results.
Vertical Slice vs Clean Architecture in .NET 10: real file counts, a decision matrix, and the pragmatic hybrid I recommend, with architecture tests.
What REA is, how it works, why it went viral, and how to set it up on Windows, plus the app I rebuilt with it in .NET 10 and why code is no longer the moat.
I gave Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra the same invoice prompt, rendered all 10 templates with IronPDF on .NET 10 and scored them in C#. Both passed, and one print CSS rule was the only real difference.
MongoDB ships 7 official Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. I read all 366KB: what they change for .NET, plus a copy-paste prompt for each.
Build RAG in ASP.NET Core on .NET 10 with GoodMem: ingest docs, answer with citations, keep chat memory across restarts, and measure what a reranker adds.
The 12 NuGet packages I install in ASP.NET Core projects on .NET 10. Each one comes with its install command, working code and license, and all are free.
A practical guide to the Result pattern in C# and .NET 10: real benchmarks, async services, ProblemDetails mapping, and what C# 15 unions change.
Configure CORS in ASP.NET Core .NET 10. Preflight, named policies, the AllowAnyOrigin + AllowCredentials trap, 7 misconfigurations, and a production checklist.
IOptions won't reload your config - IOptionsMonitor will. Bind, validate, and hot-reload configuration in ASP.NET Core .NET 10, and know which interface to use.
10 EF Core performance mistakes that ship to production - N+1 queries, missing projections, lazy loading, AsNoTracking, bulk ops - and how to fix each in .NET 10.