Noisy neighbor.

also: noisy neighbors · noisy neighbour · noisy neighbours

A tenant whose heavy resource use slows down other tenants on the same shared infrastructure.

the two-minute refresher

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.

also: noisy neighbors · noisy neighbour · noisy neighbours

A tenant whose heavy resource use slows down other tenants on the same shared infrastructure.

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.