Databricks on October 8, 2026, published a blog post detailing a development workflow in which every parallel coding agent and every pull request runs against its own isolated, ephemeral Postgres database, created through the copy-on-write branching built into its Lakebase database service. In the post, Databricks describes the database as an often-overlooked part of the development workflow at a time when coding agents are taking on a growing share of development work and running multiple…