Multi-Tenancy with Workers for Platforms
This document describes commercial Enterprise capabilities.
Basic Workers for Platforms concepts and examples are part of the open core.
Full production multi-tenant SaaS platform, billing, and advanced isolation live in the closed-source Enterprise layer.
See OPEN_CORE_FEATURE_SPLIT.md.
HOOX Enterprise uses Workers for Platforms (WfP) as the foundation for multi-tenancy in the commercial offering.
Why WfP?
- Isolated “User Workers” per tenant / fund / strategy book.
- Centralized Dispatch Worker performs routing + auth, then dispatches.
- Each User Worker gets its own (or shared-but-namespaced) bindings: DO namespaces, Queues, D1 (per-tenant or sharded), R2 paths, etc.
- Native support for tags (for metering/billing), namespaces, and (as of late 2025) dashboard management.
- Synchronous first deploy + static assets support.
- Perfect for “platform” or “hosted” HOOX where customers can even bring limited custom strategy logic.
Architecture
Dispatch Worker Pattern
User Workers are uploaded under the tenant’s namespace/script tag.
Per-Tenant Isolation
- Durable Objects: Use
idFromName(\tenant:$:idempotency`)` or dedicated namespaces per tenant.
- Queues: One queue per tenant or heavily tagged.
- D1: One database per tenant (recommended for isolation + billing) or row-level with tenant_id + RLS-like checks.
- R2: Keys prefixed
tenants/${tenantId}/... + separate buckets for strict residency.
- KV: Per-tenant or namespaced.
- Secrets: Per-script or using Secret Store with tenant scoping.
- Vectorize: Metadata filtering by tenant or separate indexes.
Existing requireInternalAuth is extended with tenant claims:
- Dashboard support for creating namespaces, dispatch templates, tags.
- Static assets can be attached directly to User Workers.
- First-time User Worker uploads are synchronous (200 means ready to dispatch).
- Tags for cost attribution and quota enforcement (Enterprise advantage).
Hosted SaaS vs Dedicated Enterprise
- Hosted (SaaS): One Enterprise account runs the Dispatch + system workers. Customers get User Workers in isolated namespaces. Billing via tags + external system.
- Dedicated (Self-hosted on Ent account): Customer gets their own Enterprise account + our templates + CLI that sets up WfP (or just higher limits + Logpush + Workflows without full multi-tenancy).
Both modes share the same core architecture.
Limits & Scaling Notes
Enterprise customers get:
- Much higher numbers of scripts / namespaces.
- Higher request volume and concurrency.
- Custom limit increases.
- Better support for customer-provided code (security review processes).
- See architecture.mdx for overall topology.
- observability-audit.mdx for per-tenant log isolation.
- Existing
wrangler.jsonc patterns will be extended with dispatch and namespace bindings in Enterprise templates.
Last modified on July 13, 2026