1. output events from Factorio into Kafka.
   1. Factorio mod listens to events.
   2. For each event, it emits a file.
   3. A Kafka Connector consumes each file.
2. Factorio Web Map reads data from Kafka
   1. converts data to images
   2. hosts a web map

todo

• add settings
  • is active - whether files are exported or not
  • delete files - clean up all files
  • tick-rate - how often reports are generated (
    • requires on some sort of in-mod cache of map<entity-id, event>)
    • also divide by game-speed? to keep ratio the same

to investigate:

• https://github.com/starwing/lua-protobuf
• https://github.com/grafi-tt/lunajson