Re:Does anyone integrate with their customers' DB directly?
by cj on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:37PM
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> If the SaaS target customers are smaller companies / startups, then this may be viable
I’m your target audience.
The #1 issue I have with this concept is, as a customer, I would have to trust that you understand the performance limits of my production database and that you won’t run (even accidentally) a burst of inefficient queries that takes down or impairs production.
One way around this would be to query against a replica / secondary, but even then you risk overloading a secondary/replica, which could have negative effects in a failover scenario.
I’m your target audience.
The #1 issue I have with this concept is, as a customer, I would have to trust that you understand the performance limits of my production database and that you won’t run (even accidentally) a burst of inefficient queries that takes down or impairs production.
One way around this would be to query against a replica / secondary, but even then you risk overloading a secondary/replica, which could have negative effects in a failover scenario.