API Design · Senior · Question 67 of 75

How do you keep one large tenant from degrading a shared API for everyone?

1Ignore it; load balancers handle fairness
✓Correct answer: Per-tenant rate limits and quotas, fair queuing, separate pools for heavy operations, and moving very large tenants to dedicated capacity
3Give the large tenant unlimited access

Explanation

This 'noisy neighbor' problem is mostly solved by isolation: limits, queues and capacity per tenant.

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