Technical guides, feature updates, and optimization stories from the EVE Frontier mapping project.
How we reduced monthly KV operations from 1.6 million to 108,000 through intelligent caching, adaptive polling, and serverless architecture—without compromising user experience.
How we built a usage analytics system that tracks feature adoption and engagement using only aggregate counters—no user IDs, no sessions, no PII, complete transparency.
Reducing load time by 90% and bundle size by 65% through spatial indexing, code splitting, native APIs, and measurement-driven optimization.
Introducing Cinematic Mode—a fullscreen, distraction-free way to explore EVE Frontier's star map with smooth camera controls and atmospheric visuals.
Introducing Follow Mode—live location tracking that keeps the map centered on your in-game position, bridging the game client and browser via the helper service.
Track all-time and per-session visited systems with visual halos—integrates with the helper bridge to automatically detect systems visited in-game.
Building a DirectX 12 overlay that displays routes calculated on the web directly inside EVE Frontier—seamless navigation without alt-tabbing.
Enriched pathfinding that trades efficiency for exploration—corridor factors, overhead budgets, and discovery scoring to find wormholes and resources along your route.
How we built a multi-waypoint route optimizer using genetic algorithms and spatial indexing to find efficient paths through hundreds of star systems in seconds.
Lightweight shared annotations on the star map—no user accounts, just tribe names, optimistic concurrency, and serverless KV storage for real-time tactical coordination.
Creating a serverless, privacy-focused route sharing system using Cloudflare Workers and KV—compress complex routes into short URLs that work anywhere.
Offloading pathfinding and multi-destination optimization to background threads using Web Workers—message protocols, progress updates, and worker pools for parallel computation.
Understanding the difference between A* and Dijkstra's pathfinding algorithms—when to use each one, performance tradeoffs, and why we implemented both in EF-Map.
How we built a three-tier caching system to visualize on-chain access control lists for Smart Gates—transforming slow blockchain queries into instant map interactions.
Iframe embedding for partner sites—URL parameters for system focus, zoom levels, orbit mode, color palettes, and preloaded routes. Fully customizable and responsive.
Bridging the browser sandbox: how we built a Windows service that connects the web app to the game client via localhost HTTP, custom protocols, and DirectX injection.
From 500ms to 4ms: how we used instanced rendering, spatial indexing, and GPU picking to render EVE Frontier's massive star map at 60 FPS in the browser.
Turning millions of blockchain events into geographic intelligence—heat maps, time series analysis, and spatial aggregation for strategic decision-making.
Side-by-side region comparison tool for data-driven expansion decisions—analyze resource density, player activity, gate connectivity, and strategic positioning across multiple regions.
Inside our PostgreSQL-based indexing pipeline: how we transform slow blockchain queries into millisecond-response analytics using spatial indexes and materialized views.
Try the interactive star map with advanced routing and optimization features.
Launch EVE Frontier Map