# Building a data plane from scratch: Stripe’s own high-performance distributed proxy > Source: > Published: 2026-08-26 00:00:00+00:00 Building a data plane from scratch: Stripe’s own high-performance distributed proxy / Metadata Date: 2026.8.26 Author: Jack Loughran Reading time: 7 min read Categories: Engineering Share: Twitter/X LinkedIn / Article About the author / About the author Jack Loughran Jack Loughran is a Software Engineer on the Service Mesh team. / Additional resources Subscribe to Stripe Developers on YouTube. Check out the docs for the in-depth developer guidance. Join the Stripe Discord server to chat live with other developers. Join a local Stripe Developer Meetup to learn about the latest features and network with your community. / Related Articles [ Fig. 1 ] 10x How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations In this blog post we’ll share an overview of Stripe’s database infrastructure and discuss the design and application of the Data Movement Platform.... Infrastructure Engineering [ Fig. 2 ] 10x Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex,... Engineering AI / Docs Explore our guides and examples to integrate Stripe. Learn more / Social Youtube Twitter/X Discord / Resources Docs Developer Meetups © 2026 Stripe, Inc. Privacy Legal Stripe.com