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Not at all how Salesforce works, they take a lot of pride in their multi-tenant setup (for better or worse). Every org on a given instance shares the same appli
by snuxoll 6y ago
Not at all how Salesforce works, they take a lot of pride in their multi-tenant setup (for better or worse). Every org on a given instance shares the same application servers and Oracle cluster.
If I were to make a Salesforce competitor that’s one thing I would do differently, with tools like Kubernetes it’s a lot easier to just give every customer their own instances. Yes, it can take up more resources - but I cannot imagine the security nightmare involved with letting multiple customers execute code (even if it’s theoretically sandboxed) in the same process, plus the headache that is their database schema.
- nitwit005 6y agoSalesforce has a lot of trial or developer orgs, which would be quite expensive if you tried to host them all as some sort of VM in a cloud hosting companies. I assume most of them end up as a few rows in some set of DBs, which is far cheaper.
- snuxoll 6y agoSalesforce charges and arm and a leg for extra sandbox instances anyway, and at that scale you aren’t paying Amazon for compute either. A full-copy sandbox past the included one for Unlimited Edition orgs is something like 30% your annual spend.
- nitwit005 6y agoYou can fill out a form and cause a free org to exist on their main site, so hundreds or thousands probably get created a day. It looks like they expire in 30 days, so if you spun up an app and DB for each it would get expensive quick.