80: Tom Schlick - Building Multitenant Applications

In this episode, Adam talks to Tom Schlick about tackling challenges faced when building multitenant apps.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• What makes an application "multitenant" really?
• Choosing between a shared database or multi-database setup
• Approaches for identifying the current tenant
• Performance considerations
• How multitenancy impacts how you integrate with external services

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Links:

• "Building Multitenant Applications", video of Tom's talk from Laracon US 2017
• Slides from Tom's multitenancy talk
• "Online migrations at scale" on the Stripe engineering blog
• "Migrating replication lag and reducing read load with freno" on the GitHub engineering blog

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.