- Sources: onatm.dev, HN discussion
- Summary: A 2026-07-16 post introduces Homescale, a project that creates writable database instances and point-in-time branches from immutable snapshots without full database copies. The first part covers the infrastructure layer: Kubernetes, Ceph storage, and copy-on-write cloning to make database branching cheap.
- Why it matters: It works through the storage mechanics behind database branching-as-a-feature, which PlanetScale and Neon expose but rarely document at the block level.
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