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Designing Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications

Aug 202610 min read

How tenant isolation, database design, permissions and application boundaries shape a scalable SaaS architecture.

Designing Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications
01

Tenant isolation

Multi-tenant applications must ensure that organization data remains isolated throughout every layer of the application.

Tenant context should be enforced consistently in queries, application services and authorization rules.

02

Database design

A shared relational database can work well when organization ownership is explicitly represented and properly indexed.