Building Multi-Tenant Cloud Apps with Tom Kerkhove
Software-as-a-Service is getting more common, what does it take to make a good app in that world? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Kerkhove about building multi-tenant cloud apps today. While multi-tenant apps have been around for a long time, the cloud offers new ways to build, monitor and maintain them. The conversation starts out digging into the challenge of data - do you really want a database for each customer? Tom talks about the new data capabilities Azure offers and how that impacts your choices - along with monitoring, API controls and more!
Guests:
Tom Kerkhove
Tom Kerkhove is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure API Management, leading Azure API Management's future to allow customers to build API ecosystems in a hybrid and multi-cloud landscape with its self-hosted gateway and Azure Arc. He has been working in the cloud-native space for 5+ years and has been a CNCF Ambassador since 2020. Autoscaling is in his DNA and is one of the active maintainers of Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), a CNCF Incubation project that makes application autoscaling on Kubernetes dead simple. It is scaling big enterprises such as Zapier, Reddit, FedEx, Alibaba Cloud, and many others.
Links:
- Tom's Blog blog.tomkerkhove.be
- CosmosDB https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db/
- AzureSQL https://azure.microsoft.com/services/sql-database/
- SQL Elastic Pools https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sql-database/sql-database-elastic-pool
- Azure Key Vault https://azure.microsoft.com/services/key-vault/
- Azure Storage https://azure.microsoft.com/services/storage/
- Azure API Management https://azure.microsoft.com/services/api-management/
- Azure Feature Management https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-app-configuration/concept-feature-management
- Azure App Configuration https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview
- Azure DevOps https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/
- Azure Monitor https://azure.microsoft.com/services/monitor/
- Azure Data Factory https://azure.microsoft.com/services/data-factory/
- Azure Deprecation Dashboard https://github.com/azure-deprecation/dashboard