When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant apps". By multi-tenant apps, we mean applications like Stripe, Figma, Twilio, Notion, Workday, and Gusto - here a large number of customers is served from a shared application stack. In these types of applications, a key architectural challenge is deciding how to store data for each customer. What makes this data architecture especially challenging is the tension between two opposing needs. On o...