App Build Plan

We sketch a plan for building our optimization application, starting with a bare-bones optimization model and then adding a data connection and simple text-based UI. Later we swap out the AMPL scripting language for Python and the text-based UI for Streamlit, and then containerize the app.

I reveal some undisclosed turns taken during my initial development of this app. Notably: an abandoned attempt to implement a recursive search for nested sets within sets that would potentially have enabled some cool additional features, and which I might return to later.