Dev Insights Blog

Updates, tips, and stories to keep you in the loop

By: CCP Falcon

Published: 2018-04-09

ESI March News

This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018. March has been a busy month for ESI so this blog will cover all the ESI news relevant to...

By: CCP Guard

Published: 2018-02-09

Upwell 2.0 ESI Structure Changes

Upwell 2.0 ESI Structure Changes Greetings developers! If you've been watching our dev blogs you'll know that there are some upcoming changes to structures coming on February 13th. This blog will serve as a short summary of the changes that affect ESI and how ESI is going to accommodate those changes. These structure changes will also be the...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2018-02-08

Explore EVE's Data Using the ESI UI

Explore EVE's Data Using the ESI UI This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018. Quick update on ESI Before jumping into the meat of...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2018-01-08

ESI Quick Reference For New Developers

ESI Quick Reference For New Developers This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018. With the recent announcement that ESI has now...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2018-01-03

Important Information on the Future of the EVE API

Greetings capsuleers, It’s been 14 months since we first told you about the new ESI API, and today we’d like to share a little more information with you. The ESI API is the latest result of CCP’s ongoing mission to bring you the most comprehensive API access in all of gaming. It is an API that covers all the responsibilities of both CREST and the...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-12-11

ESI Endpoint Versioning: Important Info and Best Practices

ESI Endpoint Versioning: Important Info and Best Practices This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-11-07

Simplify ESI Queries By Using /search/

This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. How would you find the type ID of...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-10-19

Updates to the Developer License Agreement - 2017-10

Hello developers CCP is making a number of changes to the developer agreement. The primary purpose of these changes is to allow for persons other than the original developer to enter into the agreement and get access to the resources for EVE Online made available by CCP. An example of such a user might be someone that has downloaded an application...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-10-07

Mining Ledgers in ESI

This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. Moon mining is coming to EVE...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-09-27

ESI Error Rate Limiting Goes Live On Monday

Hello space developers, As stated previously, error limiting in ESI has been imminent since August 29th. Starting after downtime on Monday, October 2nd, Team Tech Co. will officially turn on the ESI error limit functionality. If you're worried about invoking the wrath of the error limiter, you still have the weekend to check your application and...

By: CCP Zoetrope

Published: 2017-09-08

ESI, Concurrent Programming, and Pagination

This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. This blog will cover the concept...

By: Team Tech Co

Published: 2017-08-29

Error Rate Limiting Imminent

Space developers, We'd like to bring to your attention a feature coming to ESI very soon™ which may impact your application, depending on your use case. As you all know, ESI does not have any rate limits. This is great for pulling down large quantities of data over a short period of time, and is something that we work hard to ensure we can keep in...