182: Building a Dynamic Data Infrastructure at Enterprise Scale Featuring Kevin Liu of Stripe

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Kevin’s background and work at Stripe (0:31)
• Evolution of Data Infrastructure at Stripe (2:18)
• Kevin's Interest in Data (5:29)
• Software Engineer or Data Engineer? (8:27)
• Speech Recognition Work at Amazon (11:06)
• Efficiency and Cost Management (15:50)
• Metadata and Query Analysis (18:38)
• Surprising Discoveries in Metadata Analysis (21:43)
• Optimizing Cost and Value (23:55)
• Product Sizing Stripe Data (26:39)
• Popular Tool for Data Interaction (30:08)
• Enabling Data Infrastructure Integration (35:22)
• Value of Data Pipelining for Stripe (39:32)
• Next Generation Product and Technology (43:54)
• Maximizing value in a decentralized environment (51:34)
• Future of open source projects in data infrastructure (57:59)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (59:02)

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