Scraping websites built for modern browsers is far more challenging than it was a decade ago. jsoup is a convenient API that makes scraping websites trivial via DOM traversal, CSS Selectors, JQuery-Like methods and more. But it isn’t without its caveat. Every scraping API is a ticking time bomb. Real-world HTML is flaky. It changes without notice since it isn’t …

What does it take to build an efficient and sound data model for Apache Cassandra® and DataStax Astra DB? Where would one start? Are there any data modeling rules to follow? Can it be done consistently time and time again? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in the Cassandra data modeling methodology. In this post, we present …

Background The CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab conducts nuclear physics experiments to study the structure of nucleons and new particle states. At the core of detector setup are drift chambers that measure charged particles resulting from the interaction of an electron beam with a liquid hydrogen target. The charged particles are reconstructed by combining segments of the track measured in …