Spawn’s new Github actions make database CI easier than ever before Running tests against databases in CI pipelines is an essential part of testing your application. Provisioning databases in CI pipelines can be hard work, however. Broadly speaking you have two options: Have all your pipelines use shared databases Use…

Spawn enables teams to collaborate effectively to solve database performance problems — Database performance problems can be a pain to deal with. They frequently involve large amounts of data and require a lot of iteration to get the precise data set required to trigger the issue. And once you’ve got a reproduction database, what then? …

With Spawn, no more shared development databases — The shared database paradigm is a common development workflow where all developers on a team share access to one database that they all use to support application development. This workflow is usually adopted because it’s easy. There is no need to provision infrastructure for each engineer, so setup costs are…

Spawn is a new service in development at Redgate Foundry. Spawn provisions ephemeral, cloud-hosted database servers that can be snapshotted and rolled back in seconds. …