You don't have to move your Postgres to get branches.
Stay on RDS or Cloud SQL. `xata clone stream` follows the source through logical replication, and you branch the copy in Xata.
Production stays where it is.
A read-only user lets you look at production data. It doesn't let you try anything.
xata scratch gives you a throwaway branch for one query, test run or migration, then deletes it.
A coding agent wants a database per task: created when the work starts, removed when it ends. One shared staging database was never going to keep up.
Our CEO @monicasarbu on what to do instead, 2:50pm PT on Stage 2 at WeAreDevelopers in San José: "Databases in the Agent Era."
Live now: Graham walks through Account Observatory, the internal tool our GTM team built on one Postgres database.
30 minutes, then your questions.
youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHnGl…
