Kyle McMaster
Senior Consultant
Kyle is a passionate craftsman with nearly a decade of experience in software development. He enjoys contributing to OSS projects and tinkering with the latest Azure offerings, .NET features, and functional frameworks. He values strong communication, mentorship, and pair programming practices alongside domain-driven design, test-driven development, and clean architecture principles. When away from the computer, he enjoys spending time with his wife, kiddo, and friends as well as playing guitar and running outdoors.
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December 19, 2024This blog post is part of the 2024 C# Advent Calendar. Thanks to Matt Groves for organizing this awesome collection of knowledge and festivities. I’d also like…
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September 27, 2024This post is part of a series on NServiceBus. In the past couple articles, we created a saga that tries to verify a contributor’s phone number and marks them…
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September 24, 2024This post is part of a series on NServiceBus. In the previous article, we created our first saga. In this article, we will introduce the concept of timeouts and…
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August 30, 2024This post is part of a series on NServiceBus. In this article, we will implement the happy path of our example saga introduced in the previous article. In this…
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August 26, 2024This post is part of a series on NServiceBus. In the previous articles, we looked at fundamental concepts for messaging and how to get started with NServiceBus…
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April 15, 2024This post is the fourth in a series on NServiceBus, a popular messaging framework for building distributed systems. If you’ve missed any of the previous…
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March 28, 2024This post is the third in a series on NServiceBus, a popular messaging framework for building distributed systems. In the previous post, we covered the basics…
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March 13, 2024This post is the second in a series on NServiceBus. In the previous article, we looked at What is NServiceBus. In this article, we will look at how to get…
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March 07, 2024This post is the beginning of a series focused on NServiceBus which aims to provide an overview of the framework and its ecosystem. We’ll start this series with…
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February 19, 2024In today’s increasingly complex world of software development, asynchronous messaging has become a fundamental architectural principle when building service…
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February 14, 2024This article is part of a series on leveling up your testing skills Creating Test Objects via Design Patterns Supercharging Your Test Data With AutoFixture…
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December 12, 2023This article is part of a series on leveling up your testing skills Creating Test Objects via Design Patterns Supercharging Your Test Data With AutoFixture…
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December 01, 2023This article is part of a series on leveling up your testing skills Creating Test Objects via Design Patterns Supercharging Your Test Data With AutoFixture…
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December 22, 2022This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2022 hosted by Sergey Tihon. The goal of this post is to provide a glimpse into the journey of two C# developers…
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September 23, 2022Fluent Assertions is a library used to make C# test code more readable and expressive. This frees your tests from syntax heavy assertion statements and allows…
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August 23, 2022In the latest release of Ardalis.Result, a community requested feature was added to convert results from one type to another. This allows for flexible…
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July 13, 2022I was recently going through the process of installing the developer tooling I use on a fresh, new laptop. I installed the usual suspects like Visual Studio and…
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May 26, 2022Earlier this year Microsoft announced a new way to manage dependencies in .NET applications called Central Package Management. This new way of managing…
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May 13, 2022Specification is a pattern in Domain Driven Design that helps encapsulate domain knowledge in a reusable way. The term Specification was coined by Martin Fowler…
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April 18, 2022A result is an abstraction that allows developers to express the value as well as the outcome of an operation. A basic result can represent whether an operation…
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February 10, 2022A Smart Enum is an enhancement of the C# enum that provides a strongly typed and object oriented approach to enum types. Smart Enums can be used when a enum…
