Tag Archives for api
One million daily requests: where do they come from, and how we’ll cope with them
Since improving iRail server performance back in October, the iRail servers have been serving everyone without any major issues. The servers handled around 300.000 requests every day, which left quite some margin. Back then, we estimated the server capacity at … Continue reading
More API data in less network data
Days are getting shorter, and iRail API responses are getting longer. We’ve added some more data to various API endpoints, so you can build even better applications. We’ve also improved support for HTTP caching, and are closing in on a … Continue reading
iRail server move and bugfixing
Hi, I’m Bert, a 21 year old student at Ghent University. I came into contact with iRail when I fixed an existing but broken application to view realtime train data on Qt devices (mostly for Nokia’s Symbian OS). A few … Continue reading
iRail Trac
iRail project page is located at project.irail.be. Also, biggest issue (station bug) seems to have been fixed in the API (mobile site soon!). Thanks Pieter Colpaert.
iRail updates
We’ve been busy. First of all, big thanks for all the code and help from Pieter Colpaert. Updates: API (extreme beta), thanks Pieter (wiki), Code clean up, improvements, Station bug has not been solved, yet — working on it, (edit: … Continue reading