Multi-Tenant Ingestion Fairness

Concepts covered: paMultiTenant

A platform that ingests data on behalf of many producers is multi-tenant. The producers might be customer accounts (Segment ingesting events for thousands of companies), internal teams (an internal data platform serving every product team), or external partners (a marketplace ingesting from every seller). The defining property is that one ingestion infrastructure serves N producers, and the producers do not coordinate with each other. Multi-tenant ingestion has problems single-tenant ingestion does not have, and most of them reduce to one word: noisy. The Noisy Neighbor Problem Isolation Strategies Three layers of isolation cover most cases. Logical isolation separates tenants by id within shared infrastructure (one Kafka topic, partitioned by tenant id; one warehouse table, filtered by te

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