I had the chance to chat with Wei Li and José Dominguez of Thunkable, the low code, cross-platform app builder. We spoke about how they have managed to grow to over 2 million users with a team of just 5 engineers including what things looked like early on in the startup as well as now, 5 years later!

https://thunkable.com/#/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:13 - What is DevOps?
02:59 - What is Thunkable?
03:52 - Favorite Thunkable apps
05:04 - What did the MVP look like?
06:09 - Initial cloud infrastructure with app engine
06:29 - Initial tech stack
07:23 - Security considerations
08:50 - Technical bottlenecks
10:42 - Team bottlenecks
01:12 - Pagerduty storytime
15:58 - Thunkable X
19:23 - Rollout day
20:07 - Live app preview
22:50 - Current system and architecture
27:06 - MacOS build farm
30:10 - K8s cluster architecture
30:36 - Autoscaling speed
31:53 - Not every challenge needs to be addressed as a technical one
32:47 - Major lessons learned
35:45 - Roadmap
38:01 - Final thoughts

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