--- title: "The Infrastructure Behind Low Code App Builder Thunkable [DevOps Deployed Ep. 02]" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-infrastructure-behind-low-code-app-builder-thunkable-devops-deployed-ep-02--9e6gupitp source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQk6mB-71I type: video:youtube source: "DevOps Directive" published: 2026-05-31T07:40:38.628Z updated: 2026-05-31T07:48:35.460Z tags: ["devops", "kubernetes", "gcp", "react-native", "nocode"] reading_time: 38 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Infrastructure Behind Low Code App Builder Thunkable [DevOps Deployed Ep. 02] **[DevOps Directive](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-directive)** · 38 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Build Enterprise Apps in Under 60 Minutes with Code Studio \[Webinar Show Notes\]](https://daily.dev/posts/build-enterprise-apps-in-under-60-minutes-with-code-studio-webinar-show-notes--srpq6rrpk) · Syncfusion · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native), [#nocode](https://daily.dev/tags/nocode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-infrastructure-behind-low-code-app-builder-thunkable-devops-deployed-ep-02--9e6gupitp)