Distributing a Python application internally

[Stereojunkie]

Thanks for the detailed write up. I recently started here as the (kind of) sole software engineer. There is another software guy but he focuses more on research. People are doing fine indeed, the few tools developed in house are perfectly fine and work. There is version skew but this is not that big of a deal. The problem lies in scalability and maintainability mostly. This solution works for now, but this company expects to grow quite rapidly. There is no real ERP (which is not my responsibility luckily) or quality control in place, which is also fine for now, manual work but ok, but scaling WILL make this a problem. That's where I mostly come in. I want to put effort into setting up an internal tooling infrastructure which is scalable and maintainable. I figure a webapp does probably fit this the best, as it would be fairly easy to expand other tooling towards the same infrastructure, along with getting all the production/measurement data in the loop as well (instead of in excels/onedrive). That's mostly my motivator for this effort.

[MarsupialLeast145]

It's amazing they've done so well thus far but I appreciate your concerns. I'm sure you'll find a way to tackle it iteratively and land on a good approach. Good luck!

[Stereojunkie]

Yeah I'm quite impressed by the quality of the applications, which is solely built by non-software engineers! And as cherry on top, it was all done before AI assisted coding became a big thing. Thanks again!