APIs: you're probably not using them and why you probably should

Abstract:

If you venture even momentarily into the world of DevOps you'll quickly hear the phrases like continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), microservice, build automation and a whole slew more. This talk will focus on microservices aka APIs. APIs are an immensely powerful tool for building, managing, and sharing applications. I will emphasize the ability to share code regardless of language, maintainability, modularity, and empowerment of the data scientist.

This repository and associated talk covers:

• Motivation for using Microservices & APIs
• Reviews the basics of an API
• Creating functions
• Creating plumber APIs
• Deploying to RStudio Connect
• Writing an R Wrapper to an API

Resources:

• Plumber API
  • See plumber.R
• R API wrapper
  • See crop-yield-r-api-wrapper.Rmd
• Python API Wrapper
  • See crop-yield-python-wrapper.ipynb
• Parameterized Rmd:
  • See crop-yield-params.Rmd