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How does an AI model actually work? Our colleague @royvanrijn.com built "The Anatomy of an LLM". This is an interactive walk-through of tokens, vectors and attention. Read our latest Meet the Experts blog story at openvalue.blog/posts/2026/0...

Most job interviews happen in meeting rooms. Sascha Selzer's happened in the coffee corner of a conference. No pitch deck. No recruiters. Just a conversation. In our new "Meet the Experts" blog, Sascha shares his personal story as a software developer. 👇 openvalue.blog/posts/2026/0...

As of today, OpenValue Training launches "Mastering Meetings: a Developer's Guide to Professional Meeting Attendance." Learn to say "let's park that for now" with such confidence that nobody ever asks about it again. More info: openvalue.training/mastering-me...

"AI technology is working. Make your organization work with it!" Our engineer Rachèl Heimbach spent 2 years implementing AI in a regulated environment. His biggest lesson: the models are ready; organizations aren't. Yet. Part 2 of our Vision on AI Impact series. 🔗 openvalue.blog/posts/2026/0...

Today we're hosting another @isaqb.bsky.social Software Architecture Community NL meetup at the @openvalue.eu Utrecht office, with two talks about the intersection between software architecture and AI. Interested? Join the community at www.meetup.com/isaqb-nl/ !

She was standing on the Ajax football pitch, about to give her first-ever tech talk. 3 years earlier, she'd never written a single line of code. Meet Simone de Gijt — from speech therapist to developer, building genAI solutions. Read our new "Meet the Experts" series: openvalue.blog/posts/2026/0...

Our OpenValue Wrapped 2025 is here! How many cups of coffee? How many AI pair programming sessions? And did we deploy on Fridays? Watch the GIF to find out👉 #OpenValueWrapped #BetterSoftwareFaster

It's @devoxx.com week - time for our traditional Wednesday drinks! 🍺 Join the unofficial Devoxx afterparty on Oct 8, 20:00-23:00 at Café Bier Central, Antwerp. Hosted by your OpenValue friends. Everyone welcome - the more the merrier! Free Belgian beers and great conversations guaranteed! #devoxx

Join us for our Utrecht meetup on Aug 5th! 🗓️ Two great talks for Java developers: → Creating effective ADRs (Piet van Dongen) → Making Sense of Vector Databases (Balkrishna) 17:30-21:00 at OpenValue Utrecht Food & drinks included. RSVP now --> www.meetup.com/openvalue/ev... #Java #Meetup

🏗️ Software Architecture Meetup "Decision making in practice" - June 12, Utrecht. OpenValue sponsors the iSAQB NL's architecture meetup! 2 talks on decision-making & ADRs by our experts @bjschrijver.dev & @pietvandongen.com Free food, drinks & networking! RSVP: www.meetup.com/isaqb-nl/eve...

Java Champion Victor Rentea is coming to Amsterdam! Our teams are looking forward to 2 full days of DDD & Event Sourcing workshops with him. We're also sharing the knowledge at @amsterdamjug.bsky.social meetup on May 8th at our office - join for great talks, food & drinks!

📊 OpenValue AI Tech Radar 2025: 74% of our Java devs use AI daily, yet none fully trust its code. Discover what works, what doesn't, and how to navigate AI in development. See our complete findings for better software, faster. #Java #AI

Meetup time in our Utrecht office! First up: Artem Makarov talking about reverse engineering

We were the proud host of the @amsterdamjug.bsky.social at our office yesterday celebrating 30 years of Java, together with Azul! Great talks from Simon Ritter, @venkats.bsky.social & more. Amazing to see Java still thriving after 3 decades! Here's to 30 more! 🎉☕ #Java30

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📅 Mar 19, 2025: OpenValue Tech Meetup in Utrecht! Join us for two exciting talks: - "Reverse Engineering an Abandoned IoT Device" by @artemy.nl - "JVM Memory Management Deep Dive" by @hansolo.eu Food, drinks & parking provided. Starts 17:30. Register: meetup.com/openvalue/events/306511223

🌱 NEW BLOG: "What is RAG?" Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances AI by fetching relevant docs before generating responses. Perfect for code optimization assistants needing current energy efficiency techniques without retraining. openvalue.blog/posts/2025/0... #GreenCoding #RAG #AI

Happy Valentine's Day ❤️ They say true love is written in the stars, but at OpenValue, we write it in code. A special Valentine's message that combines our greatest passions: elegant code and the @Java ecosystem. #Java #Love #ValentinesDay

Happy Valentine's Day ❤️ They say true love is written in the stars, but at OpenValue, we write it in code. A special Valentine's message that combines our greatest passions: elegant code and the @Java ecosystem. #Java #Love #ValentinesDay

🇺🇸 Exciting news! OpenValue expands to the US! Led by Ed Hut, we're bringing our proven JDK migration expertise to North America, helping organizations cut Java licensing costs by up to 80% while maintaining security and compliance. Read more: www.openvalue.eu/openvalue-us...

What happens when you mix Spotify Wrapped with a developer's year at OpenValue? 🎵 Watch the video to check out our OpenValue Wrapped 2024! #DeveloperLife #YearInReview

Second talk at the @OpenValue.eu Utrecht meetup: @ceesbos.nl talking about solving issues with OpenTelemetry 👌🏻

Meetup time at the @OpenValue.eu Utrecht office! First up: Jos Roseboom talking about Spring Modulith

🥪 LUNCH & LEARN DAY 🎓 Today Ilia Awakimjan of @wetransfer.bsky.social hosted an insightful (and slightly unconventional) session: "Building the worst platform"! Through a clever reverse perspective, he showed us how building the absolute worst platform can teach us about creating the best one.

Delivered my new training "Effective Communication for Software Developers" to 12 senior devs at @openvalue.eu Dusseldorf! 🎯 From broken telephone games to heated technical debates - amazing to see how each dev brought unique experiences to the table. Ended with schnitzel & German beers 🍻

New Meetup: Dec 3rd at OpenValue Utrecht! 📦 Package encapsulation with Spring Modulith - Jos Roseboom 🔍 Solving issues with OpenTelemetry - Cees Bos Free food/drinks & great technical discussions! 17:30 - 21:30 | Few seats left! RSVP: www.meetup.com/openvalue/ev...