Provisioning for the Agentic Era: How Databricks Built a Self-Serve Infrastructure Vending Machine
Databricks built a self-serve infrastructure vending machine to scale agentic-era provisioning internally
Databricks' field engineering team developed an internal self-serve infrastructure provisioning system designed for the demands of agentic AI workloads. The 'vending machine' pattern automates resource provisioning to reduce friction for customers and internal teams operating at agentic scale. While operationally interesting, this is an internal engineering blog post rather than a product announcement or research breakthrough.