When R Met Python: A Meet Cute on Posit Connect

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A Gantt-based Primavera app becomes a sprawling Shiny monolith, so the team extracts core logic into internal R and Python packages with feature parity, exposes key functions as APIs on Posit Connect, and migrates a model from R/Plumber to Vetiver & FastAPI while keeping the same endpoint so clients never change. Databricks is the data store, automated unit tests plus small harness apps validate response times, and the approach lets UI, backend, and package work proceed in parallel.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:08Simple app to unsustainable mess
3. 3:00Primavera P6 example
4. 5:57Problem as product growth
5. 7:04Smart app design for MVPs
6. 8:53Internal packages for tools
7. 11:43APIs as super functions
8. 13:34Agreements for parallel work
9. 16:30Discipline and scaling
10. 17:55Key takeaways
11. 19:03Q&A

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