# How Tinybird Built Branches to Share Production Data Without Copying It

DevFeed: [How Tinybird Built Branches to Share Production Data Without Copying It](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-built-branches-sharing-production-data-without-copying-it-18398.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/branches-deep-dive>)

Author: Alberto Romeu

Published: 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>)

Tags: [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-excellence.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [zero-copy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-copy.md>)

## AI overview

An engineering article about Tinybird branches, covering zero-copy production-data sharing through ClickHouse metadata, Kafka consumer group isolation, S3 sample imports, and CI/CD preview deployments.

## Source excerpt

The engineering behind Tinybird branches: zero-copy partition sharing via ClickHouse metadata, Kafka consumer group isolation, S3 sample imports, and CI/CD preview deployments.