{"id":30370,"date":"2025-11-09T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/?post_type=session-replay&#038;p=30370"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:23:54","slug":"how-atlassian-solves-multi-tenancy-challenges-with-tidb","status":"publish","type":"session-replay","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/tidb-scaile-summit\/session-replays\/how-atlassian-solves-multi-tenancy-challenges-with-tidb\/","title":{"rendered":"How Atlassian Solves Multi-tenancy Challenges with TiDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multi tenancy at massive scale is hard, especially for a company like Atlassian. For example, it runs a high-concurrency, multi-tenant platform (Forge) where noisy neighbors, schema churn, and data residency are constant realities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this TiDB SCaiLE 2025 keynote, Atlassian Senior Principal Software Engineer Sergey Mineyev dives into what it really takes to run multi-tenancy for millions of tenants in high-compliance SaaS environments. From Atlassian\u2019s reality (3M+ tenants, 700+ plugins, 800-table schemas) to why shared, silo, and hybrid multi tenancy each break in different ways, you\u2019ll discover what actually works when the stakes are enterprise-grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sergey explains why per-tenant requirements\u2014BYOK encryption (customer-managed keys), data residency migrations, per-tenant backup\/restore, workload and security isolation\u2014push typical architectures past their limits. You\u2019ll see a comparison of shared multi-tenancy vs. silo (database-per-tenant) vs. hybrid multi-tenancy, including the \u201cmetadata explosion,\u201d connection management, and sharding\/bin-packing challenges that appear at millions of databases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, find out how TiDB\u2019s architecture came to the rescue: multi-master compute, ultra-lightweight sessions for huge connection counts, and a horizontally scalable metadata cache (v2) that only loads what active tenants need. You\u2019ll hear about real fixes that mattered in production\u2014faster DDL pipeline throughput (~6\u20137k DDL\/min), improved node initialization, BR backup\/restore stability, and region-tuning\u2014plus the fleet impact of consolidating over 700 PostgreSQL instances down to a small number of resilient TiDB clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You\u2019ll learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When to choose shared vs. silo vs. hybrid multi tenancy, and their operational trade-offs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to meet BYOK, data residency, and per-tenant restore SLOs without runaway cost<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why connection management and metadata scale are the silent killers of multi tenancy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How a control-plane\/data-plane mindset improves isolation, compliance, and uptime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex 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wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sergey Mineyev<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Principal Software Engineer, Atlassian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30370","session-replay","type-session-replay","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Atlassian Solves Multi-tenancy Challenges with TiDB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dive into what it really takes to run multi-tenancy for millions of tenants in high-compliance SaaS environments in Atlassian.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ko_KR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Atlassian Solves Multi-tenancy Challenges with TiDB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dive into what 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