Noisy neighbor.
also: noisy neighbors · noisy neighbour · noisy neighboursA tenant whose heavy resource use slows down other tenants on the same shared infrastructure.
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- One tenant's bulk export eats the shared database's I/O, and everyone's latency rises.
- Defend at each layer: gateway rate limits, app quotas, database timeouts and connection caps, infrastructure CPU/memory limits.
- Fair scheduling keeps one tenant's backlog from starving the others.
- Big tenants can be moved to dedicated resources.