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Multi-Tenant Architecture: A Secret Sauce to Building a Scalable SaaS
Understand the core building blocks of SaaS with clear control and application plane design.
Chaos and Clarity: The SaaS Design Story
Ali was exhausted. He had launched his SaaS app it was being used by users who had signed up and the tenants — those unique groups of customers on his platform — were being established. But something was off. The tenants were a fire, juggling flaming torches. Tenant ID check code was everywhere. Billing was a manual nightmare. Logs — just a random collection of records, and in many cases, impassable back to the tenants. Some were European, some were US based, and compliance requirements started looming. It was chaos, but it worked, sort of, out the app.
After banging his forehead for a few minutes, Ali picked up Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures by Tod Golding. Chapter 2 is where he found an epiphany: There are two planes in a scalable, manageable SaaS: a Control Plane and an Application Plane. Not random mumbo jumbo, the groundwork he had long wanted. And here is how Ali changed his app — and you, too, can do it.
The Two Realms of a SaaS Universe
Think of your SaaS platform like a busy city. Control Plane = The city hall — it manages the…
