Tenant-aware middleware: extract tenant IDs before routing
In production systems, the first rule of safe multi-tenant routing is to extract tenant context at the boundary and never assume tenant identity will be established later in the pipeline.
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In production systems, the first rule of safe multi-tenant routing is to extract tenant context at the boundary and never assume tenant identity will be established later in the pipeline.
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