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A multi-tenant system is one where each customer is a tenant sharing resources with other tenants, and this sharing is exactly where the difficulty begins.
Defines multi-tenancy as an architecture where each customer is a tenant sharing resources with others, and notes that this shared model is the root of the architecture's challenges. ✦ AI generated
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Such systems are known as multi-tenant systems, where each customer is a tenant that shares resources with other tenants. However, sharing is also where the difficulty begins.
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