Spawn makes shared development databases a thing of the past. 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 minimal. But it causes pain and bottlenecks for engineers who are always at risk of making changes that break each other’s work. Spawn allows us to make database provisioning for development pain-free, and let every engineer have their own dedicated database environment without the need to provision any extra infrastructure.