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Multi-Tenant Architecture Decisions You Can't Undo Later

Daniel Osei·VP of Engineering· 8 min read·

Tenant isolation strategy — shared schema, schema-per-tenant, or database-per-tenant — is the decision we see founders get wrong most often under time pressure.

Shared schema with row-level security scales cheaply for most B2B SaaS, but enterprise customers will eventually demand stronger isolation guarantees.

We design for a migration path from day one, even if we start with the cheapest option, so scaling up isolation later doesn't mean a rewrite.

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