Building a SaaS product is straightforward. Building a SaaS product that scales to thousands of tenants without architectural rewrites is a different challenge entirely. The decisions you make in the first few months of development compound over years.
Multi-Tenancy Strategy
The most fundamental decision is your multi-tenancy approach. Database-per-tenant offers isolation but increases operational complexity. Shared database with tenant columns is simpler but requires careful query scoping. The right choice depends on your data sensitivity requirements and expected tenant count.
Queue Architecture
Offload everything you can to background queues. Email sending, report generation, webhook dispatching, data imports — these should never block your web request cycle. Design your queue infrastructure to be horizontally scalable from day one.
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