Introducing the ESI API
The EVE Swagger Interface is a new framework developed by Team Tech Co to underpin the new ESI API. If you don't know what this is, you should go here to read the blog Introducing ESI - A new API for EVE Online.
This blog will dive a little deeper into the design and technical specifics of ESI, going to get into the base design of ESI to explain a few basic principles of what's going on behind the scenes. Most of this is transparent to the front-end, but may be of interest to some capsuleers regardless.
Fundamentals
Multi-tenant to the core
ESI was designed to be a single interface to all information EVE related. As such, if ESI and the cluster agree on configuration, you can change the datasource query parameter on any route (including //swagger.json) to the ...
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