Xata Postgres Platform Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection. Xata is an open-source, cloud-native Postgres platform built on Kubernetes that provides copy-on-write (CoW) branching, scale-to-zero, auto-scaling, high-availability, PITR backups, and a serverless SQL driver. It sits on top of CloudNativePG and OpenEBS. Architecture Overview Prerequisites - Docker - Kind - Tilt - Local Development Setup Step 1: Create Kind Cluster Step 2: Deploy with Tilt Wait for all resources to become ready. First run downloads images and takes longer; subsequent runs are fast. Step 3: Install and Aut…