Thunkable's CTO Wei Lee and engineer Jose Dominguez discuss how a 5-person engineering team supports 2 million users on a low-code mobile app builder. They cover the platform's evolution from an MIT App Inventor fork to a cross-platform React/Node.js/React Native stack on GCP, the challenges of scaling a hybrid build farm (Linux on GKE for Android, physical Mac machines via Mac Stadium for iOS), using Terraform for provisioning, Cloud Build and GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and MongoDB Atlas and hosted Redis for managed data services. Key lessons include investing in DevOps early, using managed services to stay product-focused, and solving infrastructure bottlenecks through UX changes rather than just adding capacity.
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