Heya, i know this post is more than 1 year old, but me too i'd be happy to have a rest service available to grab data from dayz servers (map, items database, lists of servers, etc...). And, accessing a DB is not a big deal as soon as an efficient caching solution has been set up. Like Redis (http://redis.io) for example. That would be great if Dayz devs would share on their blog the servers architecture, and their dailies technical problems. CCP (that develops EvE Online) use to share some of their technical challenges and it's always worth the read. Example on node instances balancing : http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/building-a-balanced-universe As a side note, Dayz team should learn a lot from EvE Online :)
