At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Ken Owens, Vice President of Cloud Native Engineering at Mastercard, presented a talk on his company's cloud native journey to distributed databases, highlighting the challenges and lessons learned in adopting this approach. Mastercard has taken a "divide and conquer" approach to data infrastructure, with separate teams for database operations and application design. This approach is challenging due to the need for effective review of code changes while providing developers with fast times to production and optimized cloud native environments. Ken's talk covered key takeaways such as educating developers on cloud native principles, organizing development around business value, and focusing on end user experience. The company is currently working on moving away from bespoke data services, automating monitoring and logging, building a "Data Service Catalog", and developing a "Data Mesh" to improve scalability and performance.