EVE Technology Lab

Hi everyone!

New Stuff

New APIs!

Contribtastic 2.1.1 with autodetect everything, including multiple client support.

New item names for Inferno 1.2 (warning: while I make updates often, the forum doesn't always get love)

Overview

Remember EVE-Central? The tool that first launched when you exported market data using the "Export to File" button, but has been chugging along (mostly) reliably since those dark days?

Well, I am "bringing back the fire" to the project, and upping my contribution. EVE-Central is still an invaluable resource in the EVE economic arena, but it can be so much better.

Stuff accomplished:

1. New API engine: Much faster, highly concurrent Scala API system
2. Unified Upload support: EVE-Central supports the unified uploader
3. Iterative visual refresh: Small changes, new logo.

Currently, the following projects are under way:

1. Facelift: There is some advantage from moving from Web 1.0 to the future, and that is a better UI experience - some work has been done here
2. New features: Hangar sells, API integration, and more.

Watch the development blog (or here) for more information as it becomes available.

+1

Not hesitating to bring your attention to https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=18466

Crucible data is now loaded. May the searching for Tier 3 BCs begin :)

To tell you the truth... It worked... for the most part.

Great stuff :)

It should be feeding e-mail.

You may want to check your mailing list subscription, as any bounce will make it very angry.

In the long run, I am moving away from the e-mail feed and towards pushed HTTP (the whole syndicate and common format discussion in that other thread).

Hmm, it seems my email doesn't work then. I did get a confirmation mail that I was already subscribed, but nothing more than that.

Oh well, I'll just wait for push services :)

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on various happenings:

New Server

The new server is "in" (not "in" the datacenter), just collecting a few remaining pieces (such as another 32GB of RAM). This is a much faster I/O, 12-core pizzabox. It really lets me do a lot more with the site.

Site Look & Feel Redesign

I started a base template borrowed heavily from Bootstrap, modified quite a bit. No other pages are redesigned yet, but thats coming.

Due to how various third party internet things work, a true single page interface isn't quite viable yet. However, pages such as the market browser and trade finder will support a more efficient filtering and loading mechanism. I haven't picked the client side stack yet, but looking at Ember.js

Site Backend, API

Most the prototype work is going on here. In fact, the entire architecture has shifted from the original, and not much remains the same (the only real constant is the database, for now).

I am going to make a bigger blog post about this, but the tl;dr version:

1. Scala
2. Akka
3. spray-server, spray-can
4. PostgreSQL

Uploader

The upload client now supports multiple EVE clients and automagically configures its self. No build available yet - needs a bit more testing. Stay tuned.

The EC server currently is quite busy due to the "large" amount of API traffic it gets (over a million requests per day just looking at it since Jan 1). This is on an older, 4-core, 10GB, mirrored SATA drive machine.

CPU wise it gets enough load to make peak times noticeable. I don't like that :)