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Victor Elkjær Birk
Copenhagen
Last updated: June 15th, 2022

The doyen of doggos

Hi, I am Victor and this is an image of a random (🐕) simply because I love doggos.

I am unfortunately not allowed to keep a dog in my apartment, which is a pity, but it alleviates my pain knowing that I can keep all the doggos I want here 😍

Working with Kubernetes (k8s) on-the-daily and occasionally managing clusters with the k9s cli, I began to wonder:
what you call the medic in a K9 unit?
... a dogtor 🤣🤣🤣

Favorite Reads

The following books will be rated on a scale from 1-5 🐕 Note that since these are my favorites, I am discounting for the fact that all of them have enhanced my understanding of a particular subjects significantly.

Computer Science

Title Progress 3 key takeaways Rating
Clean Code Read in 2020
  • SOLID principles,
  • value of testability,
  • clean code was once messy.
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Clean Architecture Read in 2021
  • component principles,
  • augmented understanding of SOLID principles,
  • importance of layered architectures.
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Microservices Patterns Read in 2022
  • practical DDD,
  • augmented SAGA understanding,
  • event-driven architectures.
 🐕🐕🐕🐕
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Currently reading
  • DDD is about organization,
  • decomposition of large domains into a network of bounded contexts,
  • domain models are difficult.
 🐕🐕🐕🐕 (subject to change)
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Currently reading
  • every pattern is incomplete,
  • patterns build a common vocabulary,
  • domain models are difficult.
 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 (subject to change)

In the very near future, I will add favorite reads in the following categories:

And I will start blogging about my own experience and reflections for each of these topics ... but probably migrate this page to a HUGO based setup to make the blogging experience more seamless.