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[Keynote] Production is like ultra running: brutal, ungrateful, but worth every step

[Keynote] Production is like ultra running: brutal, ungrateful, but worth every step

Keynote at the ShinyConf 2023

Colin Fay

March 16, 2023
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  1. Production is like
    ultra running: brutal,
    ungrateful, but worth
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    Colin Fay - ThinkR

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  7. You’ll never run again, Mr FAY.

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  12. https://www.strava.com/clubs/rstats

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  18. R is not meant for production.

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  21. https://engineering-shiny.org/

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  23. ?

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  24. No one cares that you run ultra

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  25. No one cares that you run ultra
    use R in prod

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  27. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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  28. “Whenever you’re learning a new tool, for a long time you’re
    going to suck… But the good news is that is typical, that’s
    something that happens to everyone, and it’s only temporary.”
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  32. Truth #1 - The devil is in the details

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  43. Made with https://excalidraw.com/

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  47. Truth #2 - It's not only about it.

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  50. 2015 : 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃


    2023 : 🏃🏋🏃🚴🏃🧗🏃🏊🏃🧘

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  57. 2019 : 👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻👩💻


    2023 : 👩💻👩🔬👩💻📓👩💻📞👩💻👩🔬👩💻👩💻

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  61. Truth #3 - There are things nobody wants to
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  77. Truth #4 - It's a team work after all.

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  87. Truth #5 - We learn the hard way

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  89. I wish I had listened to their advice.

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  90. I wish I had listened to their advice.

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  95. About & links
    About me:


    - https://colinfay.me/


    - https://twitter.com/_ColinFay


    - https://engineering-shiny.org/


    ThinkR & the golemverse


    - https://rtask.thinkr.fr/


    - https://github.com/ThinkR-open


    - https://golemverse.org/

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  96. Tools & packages presented
    Schema made with excalidraw https://excalidraw.com/


    {shiny}: https://shiny.rstudio.com/


    {golem}: https://thinkr-open.github.io/golem/


    {rhino}: https://appsilon.github.io/rhino/


    {shinytest2}: https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/


    {rmarkdown}: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/


    {covr}: https://covr.r-lib.org/


    {testthat}: https://testthat.r-lib.org/


    {renv}: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/

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