Techforce1

20/03/2026

Meetup : Yesterday, Zino Onomiwo and Jasper Horn took us on a journey about .

Many colleagues already had experience with vibe coding, but this time we challenged ourselves not to look at the code at all and instead rely purely on “vibe coding” while building a Tamagotchi application ( ).

This led to some really interesting differences in approach, insights, and faster (not necessarily better) coding. Unfortunately, not all Tamagotchi's survived ;-)!

18/12/2025

Last friday, we had our annual Christmas dinner at Kasteel Amerongen. Together with our colleagues and their partners, we looked back on a fantastic year, filled with great assignments, personal growth, social events, and technical sessions. Our company and our people have grown, and along the way we had a lot of fun as well. We are looking forward to 2026!

24/11/2025

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of taking an introductory diving course organized by OBA. Nicolette and Stephanie guided us on an underwater journey where we became familiar with the gear, the water, and our breathing. And of course, there were some exercises and plenty of time for fun! And now the short movie is ready, have fun!

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03/09/2025

workshop: Yesterday we had another great technical session, this time about the (Dark Side of) Service Meshes. Our colleagues Marco van Kimmenaede and Sem den Broeder took us on a deep dive into the technology itself, its pros and cons, and how to troubleshoot it.
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23/05/2025

Blog : Are you still spending too much time setting up cloud dev environments manually? In our latest blog, Jeroen Admiraal shows you how to create a fully automated environment in AWS – using Pulumi and Infrastructure as Code.
💡 What you’ll learn:
Why Pulumi (and not just Terraform)?
How to spin up your dev setup in minutes
Managing cloud infrastructure with several programming languages
👉 Read the full article here: https://techforce1.nl/create-your-own-developer-environment-in-aws-with-the-help-of-pulumi

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22/11/2024

Because soft skills are just as important as technical expertise, we organized a social skills session for our engineers last Monday. Akerendam provided us with valuable insights and tools to further enhance our effectiveness at customers. To round off the day, we enjoyed a fantastic BBQ workshop at the BBQ Experience Center Nunspeet.

19/09/2024

Workshop : Functional Programming (with ). Ron Boortman and Lennart van der Garde prepared an interesting workshop on functional programming specifically with Haskell. A nice way to discover new concepts.

23/05/2024

boardgame day: last Saturday we had our boardgame day in Arnhem. Spelkwartier was so kind to host our 2024 session! We had a real good time playing Dungeons and Dragons, and several other board games. We are already looking forward to the next one!

16/05/2024

Workshop hashtag : This week we had our first Pulumi workshop. Our colleagues Marco van Kimmenaede and Jeroen Admiraal talked about the possibilities of this upcoming technology. Great session and interesting to see how it compares to things like, for example, hashtag !

15/04/2024

Saturday we had a activity together with all the partners of our colleagues. We had a great night @ Scala | foodbar & theater in Amsterdam. With really good food, performances and lots of laughs because of , and . Good to see everybody again. We had a blast!

01/03/2024

Yesterday we had a Techforce1 meetup about GoLang, given by our colleques Ron Boortman and Zino Onomiwo. The workshop was a dive into the world of Go programming language. "What is GoLang? Why would you want to learn/use GoLang? What are the strengths and features of GoLang?"
After this we had a little playtime during a fencing clinic given by Break Schermclinics. We are all ready for the Olympic Games at Paris now :).