Python
Plan the Buildout
App Build Plan
Python
UI
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.
Switch our glue language to Python
Python
App Logic
AMPL
Having worked thus far in only the AMPL modeling and scripting languages respectively, we jettison the AMPL scripting language and replace it with Python. This transforms our model into a component callable from within Python via the AMPL-Python API.
'Glue' Languages
General Languages
Python
App Logic
Discussing the use and interchangeability of general languages which ‘glue’ optimization application components together and implement out-of-model app logic.