Practical Limits for Configurability
The last few months, my team has been working on a sample SaaS application to demonstrate the multi-tenancy concepts I’ve been describing in my papers and blog. One of the areas we spent some cycles thinking about are the aspects of configurability that a SaaS provider should allow the tenants to have. I want to share some design lessons from my team’s discussions:
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