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-- [Polly](#polly)
-  - [NuGet Packages](#nuget-packages)
-    - [Polly v7](#polly-v7)
-    - [Polly v8 Pre-releases](#polly-v8-pre-releases)
-  - [Get Started](#get-started)
-    - [Installing via the .NET SDK](#installing-via-the-net-sdk)
-    - [Supported targets](#supported-targets)
-    - [Using Polly with HttpClient factory from ASP.NET Core 2.1](#using-polly-with-httpclient-factory-from-aspnet-core-21)
-    - [Role of the readme and the wiki](#role-of-the-readme-and-the-wiki)
-  - [Release notes](#release-notes)
-  - [Resilience policies](#resilience-policies)
-  - [Usage – fault-handling, reactive policies](#usage--fault-handling-reactive-policies)
-    - [Step 1 : Specify the exceptions/faults you want the policy to handle](#step-1--specify-the-exceptionsfaults-you-want-the-policy-to-handle)
-    - [Step 1b: (optionally) Specify return results you want to handle](#step-1b-optionally-specify-return-results-you-want-to-handle)
-    - [Step 2 : Specify how the policy should handle those faults](#step-2--specify-how-the-policy-should-handle-those-faults)
-      - [Retry](#retry)
-      - [Retry forever (until succeeds)](#retry-forever-until-succeeds)
-      - [Wait and retry](#wait-and-retry)
-      - [Wait and retry forever (until succeeds)](#wait-and-retry-forever-until-succeeds)
-      - [Circuit Breaker](#circuit-breaker)
-      - [Advanced Circuit Breaker](#advanced-circuit-breaker)
-      - [Fallback](#fallback)
-    - [Step 3 : Execute code through the policy](#step-3--execute-code-through-the-policy)
-      - [Richer policy consumption patterns](#richer-policy-consumption-patterns)
-  - [Usage – proactive policies](#usage--proactive-policies)
-    - [Step 1 : Configure](#step-1--configure)
-      - [Optimistic timeout](#optimistic-timeout)
-      - [Pessimistic timeout](#pessimistic-timeout)
-      - [Bulkhead](#bulkhead)
-      - [Rate-Limit](#rate-limit)
-      - [Cache](#cache)
-      - [PolicyWrap](#policywrap)
-      - [NoOp](#noop)
-    - [Step 2 : Execute the policy](#step-2--execute-the-policy)
-  - [Usage – results and exceptions](#usage--results-and-exceptions)
-    - [Getting execution results as a PolicyResult](#getting-execution-results-as-a-policyresult)
-    - [Getting execution results and return values with a HttpResponseMessage](#getting-execution-results-and-return-values-with-a-httpresponsemessage)
-    - [Getting execution results and return values with a Policy\<TResult\>](#getting-execution-results-and-return-values-with-a-policytresult)
-    - [Getting strongly-typed results with ExecuteAndCapture\<TResult\>()](#getting-strongly-typed-results-with-executeandcapturetresult)
-    - [State-change delegates on Policy\<TResult\> policies](#state-change-delegates-on-policytresult-policies)
-    - [BrokenCircuitException\<TResult\>](#brokencircuitexceptiontresult)
-  - [Policy Keys and Context data](#policy-keys-and-context-data)
-  - [PolicyRegistry](#policyregistry)
-  - [Asynchronous Support](#asynchronous-support)
-    - [SynchronizationContext](#synchronizationcontext)
-    - [Cancellation support](#cancellation-support)
-  - [Thread safety](#thread-safety)
-  - [Interfaces](#interfaces)
-    - [Execution interfaces: `ISyncPolicy` etc](#execution-interfaces-isyncpolicy-etc)
-    - [Policy-kind interfaces: `ICircuitBreakerPolicy` etc](#policy-kind-interfaces-icircuitbreakerpolicy-etc)
-  - [Custom policies](#custom-policies)
-  - [Chaos engineering with Simmy](#chaos-engineering-with-simmy)
-  - [Polly-Contrib](#polly-contrib)
-    - [Available via Polly-Contrib](#available-via-polly-contrib)
-  - [3rd Party Libraries and Contributions](#3rd-party-libraries-and-contributions)
-  - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
-  - [Sample Projects](#sample-projects)
-  - [Instructions for Contributing](#instructions-for-contributing)
-  - [License](#license)
-  - [Blogs, podcasts, courses, e-books, architecture samples and videos around Polly](#blogs-podcasts-courses-e-books-architecture-samples-and-videos-around-polly)
-    - [Blog posts](#blog-posts)
-    - [Podcasts](#podcasts)
-    - [PluralSight course](#pluralsight-course)
-    - [Sample microservices architecture and e-book](#sample-microservices-architecture-and-e-book)
-      - [Sample microservices architecture](#sample-microservices-architecture)
-      - [e-book](#e-book)
-  - [Videos](#videos)
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 ## Get Started
 
 ### Installing via the .NET SDK