Welcome to Pandora
We’ve successfully moved all sites, email, DNS, and everything else on our old server, Highpoint, to our brand new machine, Pandora. This has entailed a lot more downtime than we’d anticipated; this has mostly been due to lack of preparation on my part, a glorious DNS cock-up and the added complexity of having Highpoint’s backhaul [...]
Moondoggie & Market Browsing
OK. EVE Metrics is my big market browsing project. It’s very complex, it’s got a lot of data, but it all basically comes down to this: People browse the market with a program running on their computer, and when any market data is viewed, EVE Online writes it to a cache file, the program decodes [...]
EVE Scalability Explained
OK, I’ve seen a bunch of posts on the EVE blogosphere about this recently and it’s always been a tricky topic to understand. This post aims to demystify EVE’s architecture and explain in simple terms what EVE’s current issues with scaling for fleet fights are, and approaches for fixing them. So first a disclaimer: I [...]