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Training by OpenValue
We love to share our knowledge at meetups and conferences. Next to that, we provide trainings and workshops.
These are led by our experts that have hands-on project experience.
What others say about us
The course was very well organized. You could tell the teacher was passionate and knowledgeable and was able to explain the topics in an easy to understand manner, taking into account each students level.
Skilled, enthusiastic and flexible trainers!
This workshop refreshed and categorized my knowledge and encouraged me to use TDD more often.
The programming course at OpenValue was very helpful for me to get a better overall understanding on how to build an application and how to unit test it. The course went at a nice pace and had a good mix of theory explanations and hands-on practice.
Everyone was really happy with the instructor, who had a lot of experience / knowledge.
The course was a great success. The assignments were done in Java, but the mindset of writing clean and testable code can be applied to any language. Would definitely recommend!
Schedule
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Docker for Java Developers
Docker for java developers
Starting with containers was never easier. In this training you will start with the basic of Docker: how to start, manage and update containers, before moving to more advanced topics like docker-compose, networking in containers and leveraging Docker to accelerate your continuous deployment. And finally, using TestContainers to run your tests in containers using code.
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8 hrs | 27 February 2019 | Stijn Vet | On site or remote |
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Angular
Learn how to use and apply Angular for reliable tailor-made front ends. Our trainer has been working with Angular 2+ since it was alpha and is a regular speaker on this subject. He has been lead developer
in a complex greenfield implementation and will share lots of insights he learned about how to design, set up, test and build Angular applications.
Concepts that will be adressed:
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8 hrs | 8 November 2019 | Rachel Heimbach | On site or remote |
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Automated end-to-end testing with Cypress.io
Cypress is a complete end-to-end testing experience for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress promises to be more developer friendly than Selenium; let's see if that's true. In this session we'll show how we've used Cypress to make feature development easier at a Dutch education company, write end-to-end tests at a Kenyan healthcare company, and test individual components at bol.com. We'll also get our hands dirty with some live coding in the Cypress Kitchen Sink. And of course there will be plenty of room for questions. If you want to try Cypress yourself, it's as easy as running `npm install cypress` and `npx cypress open` to get started (see https://on.cypress.io/installing-cypress for more detailed instructions).
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4 hrs | 29 November 2019 | Jogchem Dijkstra | On site or remote |
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AWS for Developers
In this session, the trainer will give an introduction and share good practices for running web applications on Amazon Web Service (AWS), from the viewpoint of a developer. He will also share experiences from multiple projects with running in production on AWS. Some experience with public cloud environments is preferred but not required. During the session, you can either watch the trainer’s screen, or follow along on your own machine. In the latter case, make sure you have access to an AWS account (if you don’t have one, you can create an account for free at https://aws.amazon.com).
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4 hrs | 22 November 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Axon Framework
CQRS & Event sourcing combined results in elegant design pattern that offers many advantages over storing information regularly in a database. Imagine being able to know how a certain state was achieved instead of only knowing
the end result. This is for instance useful if you need or want an audit trail on why an end state was recorded, or if you want redetermine an end state with additional data.
The Axon framework is becoming more popular every day and it's one of the main frameworks to implement CQRS & Event Sourcing. The trainer has worked on two sizeable
implementations and has given several talks on the subject at meetups. He will show, tell and help you understand how to work with Axon yourself.
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8 hrs | 30 January 2019 | Jan Hendrik Kuperus | On site or remote |
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Blockchain for business
Expect an easy to understand overview of Blockchain concepts and how these work together in a decentralized system.
Also, the trainer will explain why blockchain was invented, what problem it solves and what different types of blockchain are out there. Next the focus shifts towards developing distributed blockchain applications.
In the afternoon the focus will shift to smart contracts will set up their own ethereum blockchain and write their own smart contracts.
Learning objectives
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8 hrs | 6 December 2019 | Roy Wasse | On site or remote |
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DevOps for managers
Development and Operations merged together creates the word DevOps. It promises effective deployment and maintanance of your software. But how can
your organization implement this? What does it mean for the existing infrastructure departments, what should be the profile of DevOps team members.
How mature should your teams be and what technology is needed to support DevOps. The trainer will tell you about a few succesful DevOps transformations and
tell you which steps can be taken and how your organization can prepare.
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4 hrs | 23 January 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Foolproof UI's with Elm
Front end development can be tricky. Javascript is not a strict language, is not typesafe and allows you to create code that's not always reliable. Writing automated test can
of course detect errors, but wouldn't it be better that the programming language that you use prevents them in the first place? Welcome to Elm. A language set up in a way that
you as a developer are safeguarded from all kinds of common issues you will have in Javascript. Our trainer is a contributor to Still4M. A static code analyzer for Elm.
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8 hrs | 13 December 2019 | Mats Stijlaart | On site or remote |
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Functional Programming fundamentals
Functional programming is usually classified as difficult. The jargon sounds scary and is creating a barrier to newcomers. This is a shame, since in the essence I would argue that functional programming is easier than object-oriented programming. In this session, I'll outline the fundamentals of functional programming and we will take a look at some common constructs from the perspective of the foundations. Hopefully in the end you will walk away with your toes dipped into the world of functional programming wanting to know more. This session is aimed for the object-oriented programmer. No prior knowledge about FP is required.
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4 hrs | 27 March 2019 | Mauro Palsgraaf | On site or remote |
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Hands-on Blockchain
Learn all about technical concepts underlying blockchain technology like mining, consensus algorithms, forks, encryption and smart contracts.
After a theoretical kickoff the participants are going to set up an Ethereum blockchain in the cloud.
When the different nodes are connected the participants are going to write smart contracts to implement one or more use cases.
In consultation with the trainers you can also bring in your own case.
Learning objectives
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8 hrs | 20 December 2019 | Mauro Palsgraaf & Jan Hendrik Kuperus | On site or remote |
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Kotlin
Java is a very effective programming language, with a huge community behind it. A language like Scala on the other hand implements functional programming principles that
- for instance - allow developers to avoid null pointer exceptions. However, a commonly heard complaint is that it's hard to learn. Kotlin marries the two advantages without becoming
a hard to learn language and its adoption is going really well. Google has even announced that Kotlin is the main language for developing Android applications. Kotlin is here to stay and this workshop is an excellent starting point to get started with it.
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4 hrs | 16 Januari 2019 | Paulien van Alst | On site or remote |
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes is popular. It's the most used tool to orchestrate Docker containers. Initially developed bij Google and later donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
It offers extensive options to deploy, scale and manage Docker containers.
DevOps even become fun with it: Kubernetes lets you focus on the application instead of the infrastructure.
What can you expect during the workshop:
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4 hrs | 5 April 2019 | Arnout Rijpkema | On site or remote |
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Linux for Java Developers
As a developer working on backend tasks working knowledge with Linux is often required. Our trainer has been working with it for twenty years and is a reknowned speaker and expert
in the field of Java development, which run often times on Linux. He will share key insights, practical solutions and an extensive overview of how to work in Linux safe and efficient.
Prepare for a day full with anecdotes, practical excercises and also a lot of fun!
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8 hrs | 15 November 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Load testing with Gatling
Gatling uses Akka and Netty to deliver heavy load from just one instance on your web application in a very effective way. In many cases that's already a good
reason to write and record performance tests with Gatling. Also, they created a very friendly and easy to understand DSL in Scala that makes it a pleasure to work with. In this workshop you
will learn how and when to use Gatling.
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4 hrs | 9 January 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Microservices
Designing a durable and maintainable Microservice architecture is hard. It can on the other hand create a scalable, modular and agile application architecture.
In this workshop the CTO of OpenValue will share his experiences and help you gain insight on how to group together services, make them resilient and how to build them.
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4 hrs | 9 July 2020 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Secure software development
A practical workshop that addresses security aspects of software development and what can be done from the point of view of a developer, or organisation to improve the security of the software. Recognizing and fixing vulnerabilities is essential, but can be challenging. Therefore this workshop will teach the participants to think like an attacker.
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4 hrs | 19 March 2021 | Alwin Peppels | On site or remote |
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Kafka basic
A hands-on training or workshop that addresses various aspects of Kafka guided with practical examples.
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4 hrs | 1 april 2021 | Mireille Lock & Vasco Veloso | On site or remote |
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Kafka Advanced
A practical workshop that addresses topics for developers who are experienced with Kafka and like to deep dive into the framework.
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8 hrs | 8 april 2021 | Mireille Lock & Vasco Veloso | On site or remote |
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Selenium
Automating front end tests with selenium requires knowledge of best practices if you want to keep your test stable and maintainable. During this training we will share what the Selenium API offers, how to set up tests effectively and how to maintain them.
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4 hrs | 6 March 2019 | Paco van Beckhoven and Pieter Brederode | On site or remote |
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Vert.x
Vert.x is a lean framework that can be used to build Microservices effectively. It's more lightweight compared to Spring Boot and stands out in
maintainability and it's easy to learn. The trainer has implemented it at a large publisher in the role of Software Architect and he will share
what he has learned with the trainees.
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4 hrs | 13 March 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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Git in real life
Many companies have adopted Git over the last year due to the benefits it provided for agile working, integration with build tools, and has simply improved the drawbacks of tools from 15 years back.
In this workshop we will learn how the fundamentals of Git are build, how you can use them, but as well how these fit in your business's needs and how to automate things with Git. By the end of the workshop you should be (more) comfortable using Git, and are more proficient in making decisions implying the usage of VCS tools within your organisation. |
4 hrs | 27 March 2019 | Mats Stijlaart | On site or remote |
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OWASP top 10
OWASP is a worldwide organization focused on improving software security. For this goal they have built a list of the top 10 most Critical Web Application Security Risks.
In this workshop we will go through the list, focus on the risks important to your application and get some hands-on action by performing these exploits yourself.
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4 hrs | 20 March 2019 | Frank Walinga | On site or remote |
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Writing clean and testable code
This training is focused on writing better code. The training is aimed at junior to medior software developers, and for everyone who regularly writes code (test automation engineers, for example).
This is a two day training. In the first day, the focus will be on the following subjects:
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4 hrs | 18 March 2019 | Mauro Palsgraaf | On site or remote |
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Practical Continuous Delivery and DevOps
The Wall Street Journal already mentioned it in 2011: "Software is eating the world."
Nowadays, every company is an IT company. Product owners and other business representatives seeing their competitors release new features to end users every day are demanding the same from their own software teams. As a tech leader, you might ask yourself:
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4 hrs | 21 March 2019 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
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End to end Scenario Driven Testing with Codecept.js
Software testing is an important discipline in Agile development. It evaluates the functionality of software modules
against the intended features specification coming from business requirements. The end to end (E2E) tests can
be seen as black box tests. Such black box tests relies only such specification and test whole system parts
together. The user scenario driven tests help to ensure that requirements are properly translated
into the specification by evaluating modules functionalities.
Let’s make our hands a bit dirty and discover hot to make a software better. Workshop agenda:
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4 hrs | 25 March 2019 | Miro Wengner | On site or remote |
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How to do Java Modules and Java Frameworks: SpringBoot and Quarkus
The Java Modules has been introduced as the result of the project Jigsaw in 2017 ( Java SE 9 release)
Since that time a lot of important Java libraries and frameworks went through the Java Modules adoptions
despite of some initial controversial topics. Java Platform already offers the concept of packages and
access modifiers in order to structure application code, but the platform has been still vulnerable not only due to the reflection.
Let’s discover together Java Modules and make the application code more reliable, maintainable and secure.
During the workshop we develop a Java Application by using some popular Java Frameworks. The application will contain multiple maven modules, data and other resources. Workshop agenda:
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4 hrs | 28 March 2019 | Miro Wengner | On site or remote |
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Introduction to Test-driven development
This session introduces TDD (Test-driven development). It is a combination of theory and hands-on assignments.
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4 hrs | 9 November 2020 | Teije van Sloten | On site or remote |
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Software architecture
Taking on the role of a software architect is an increasingly important task that requires profound training.
The iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture (CPSA®) program offers you a globally recognized, standardized education and advanced training scheme.
This is a 4 day training that ends with an exam for Certified Professional for Software Architecture, foundation level.
Being certified at Foundation Level, you will be able to independently create and document the architecture of a system, and to assure and evaluate its quality. You will also gain knowledge of the required tools. The training for the Foundation Level provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to design and document software architecture for small and medium-sized systems that is appropriate to the problem. Skills that a training at Foundation Level provides:
This training is organized in cooperation with BITPlan GmbH. |
4 days (4x 8 hrs) | 26 November 2020 | Bert Jan Schrijver | On site or remote |
Trainings can be given in one of our offices (Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Munich, Dusseldorf, Vienna), on site at a client location or remote. Training content can be tailored to meet your specific requirements.
Regular pricing: EUR 250 for a 4 hour workshop per attendee and EUR 450 per attendee for an 8 hour workshop. Please contact us for the pricing of multi day workshops.
Want to enroll or have a question? Just send a mail to info@openvalue.training
or give us a call at +31-85-0606886.