New Article: "Practical Schema Engineering: Tools and Techniques for schema-aware Kafka applications" Special thanks to Ulrike Stampa & @thilo_espenlaub for collaboration, to @tlberglund for encouragement, to @johanneslink for tech support! mmerdes.github.io/practical-… @apachekafka

FYI: We (@JUnitTeam) are planning on #JUnit6 with a @Java 17 baseline, hopefully to be released in the Fall of 2025. 😎 github.com/junit-team/junit5…

The Indus River Basin is highly exposed to riverine floods. We recently traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan, to strengthen local geospatial skills and develop a data-driven flood risk assessment with @PRC_official, @ifrc and local stakeholders. 👉Read more: heigit.org/risk-assessment-p…

It’s a wrap! 🎇 With 2024 drawing to a close, we look back to some of the milestones we reached in 2024: ​heigit.org/the-year-2024-at-… We thank especially our partners: your collaboration and support is what drives our mission forward. Happy holidays from the GIScience & HeiGIT team!

Join Christian, @marcphilipp, @sam_brannen, and @ju_derancourt on November 27 for the IntelliJ IDEA Livestream!

Eager to know what happened at @theMissingMaps annual gathering? Don't miss Sam Colchester's account of the event, including a great reminiscence of the last 10 years of Missing Maps! 🎉 buff.ly/3CBOZRk

Dr. Josef Schuster: „Das sind Bilder des Schreckens. Die Hatz auf Juden ist wieder ausgebrochen – das waren keine Krawalle unter Fangruppen. Es ist ein Armutszeugnis, dass Juden und Israelis in Westeuropa nicht mehr sicher sein können. Und das kurz vor dem 9. November, dem Jahrestag der Reichspogromnacht. Wir müssen diese Entwicklung sehr ernst nehmen. Meine Gedanken sind bei den häufig jungen Menschen, die einfach nur ein Fußballspiel ihres Vereins besuchen wollten. Diese Gewalt scheint überall möglich. Auch in Berlin wurde am Wochenende ein Fan des örtlichen #Makkabi-Clubs verprügelt.“ #Amsterdam

❗️New Features for the ohsome Quality API and dashboard❗️ Use the new Attribute Completeness indicator to find the percentage of features in an area that have specific additional attributes. All information here: heigit.org/new-features-for-… #osm #ohsome #dashboard #dataquality

Excited for #Walk21 in Portugal! 📅 @theogeo6 presents Session TD6.2 on "Data-Driven Steps" on 17 Oct, 2 pm. Discover how walkability indexes can make the "15-minute city" more inclusive and accessible: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/… #UrbanPlanning #15MinuteCity

We are happy to announce that the Sovereign Tech Fund will invest in JUnit in 2024 and 2025. That means that @marcphilipp, the JUnit team lead, will get to work full-time on JUnit for about a year! 🎉 Announcement on GitHub: github.com/junit-team/junit5…

Join #HeiGIT at the XP Days Germany 2024! At this year's @xpdays_de, our colleagues Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell review our experiences with working with #FloatingTeams. 📅Oct. 10-11, 2024 📍Filderhalle in Leinfelden-Echterdingen (near Stuttgart) 🔎heigit.org/heigit-at-xp-days…

If you are interested in Property-Based Testing, check out this thoughtful article by @johanneslink on the future of PBT: blog.johanneslink.net/2024/0…

Would @warpstream_labs technically work on-prem using MinIO? And if so, how big is the risk for this setup to be discontinued in favour of Confluent Cloud?

Heute vor 52 Jahren: Elf israelische Sportler und ein Polizist sind beim Münchner Olympia-Attentat 1972 ermordet worden. Wir werden sie niemals vergessen. #münchen1972

What a great workshop on “Digitalizing Paper-based Participatory Risk #Mapping” at #IDRiM2024 with @CruzRojaCol, @UNALOficial, and @UBDC! We explored the #SketchMapTool in the hands-on mapping session.🌍 #DisasterResilience #ParticipatoryMapping 👉heigit.org/digitalizing-pape…

🏙️ The quality and completeness of building data in #OpenStreetMap vary across urban centers worldwide. 🔍 Explore our latest analysis on OSM building data completeness with updated data: heigit.org/analysis-of-osm-b…

Please don't squash commits. You're throwing away data when you do that. If you want a 'pretty view' of history, you can always pretend to throw away data when it pleases you, e.g. git diff commit123..commit456

#JUnit 5.11 is released! 🏟 FieldSource for param. tests ✨ Dynamic/param. test enhancements 🧹 AutoClose for test fields 🤖 ConversionSupport utility 💡 Extensible syntax for discovery selectors 🌀 Before/AfterSuite 🐞 Field/method search bug fixes junit.org/junit5/docs/5.11.0…

If you are interested in the history of electronic musical instruments, check out this great new book by 'SynGuru' Dr. Tom Rhea: 'Electronic Perspectives: Vintage Electronic Musical Instruments' electronicperspectives.com/ cc: @TheTonyHorgan

Job Opening: Senior Data Scientist for Climate Action (m/f/d, up to 100%) We are looking for your expertise in Climate Action topics, such as creating high-resolution spatial indicators of #climatechange #readiness and #greenhouse gas #emission maps. heigit.org/job-opening-senio…

#JUnit 5.11 RC1 is ready for testing! 🎩 Everything from M1 and M2 ✨ Enhancements for dynamic & parameterized tests ♻ Jupiter extension improvements 🌀 BeforeSuite and AfterSuite lifecycle methods 🔍 Classpath resource scanning junit.org/junit5/docs/5.11.0…