Simmy

I sometimes want to test how an application will handle errors when calling a web service. To do this, I built a simple echo server that responds to any HTTP verb on any URL. Some percentage of the time, the server will return 500 errors. It uses the Simmy package to achieve this.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. This post builds on the previous one where I added chaos policies to a registry and dynamically configured their settings via a config file.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. Simmy chaos policies have configurable options, via these options the polices can be turned on or off, have the rate at which they fire set, and in the case of the latency policy, the injected delay.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. The blog posts I have written so far about Simmy all deal with the scenario where you don’t have control over the source code that you want to break, in these cases Simmy policies are applied to the calling code.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. Up until now the Simmy examples I’ve written have thrown exceptions, changed successes to failures or slowed down a request.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. This is the third in my series on chaos engineering with Simmy. The first two posts dealt with the fault policy throwing exceptions and returning failed responses rather than calling the remote service.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. I wrote a blog on using a Simmy Fault policy a few days ago, it is very simple to use by itself, but it is far more useful when used in combination with a resilience policy.

Full source code here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. For quite a while I have been writing, presenting and making videos about using Polly to make applications more stable.