Rule number 1 of multitenancy: never assume all tenants are good actors

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Nov 23, 2025 • 1 min read


Rule number 1 of multitenancy: never assume all tenants are good actors.

Your design must always assume that some tenants will try to abuse the platform. Even when a tenant misbehaves, the system should continue to operate. The load of one must never impact others.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses