Episode description

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