TIL on January 28, 2026
Noisy Neighbor problem
In software development, a noisy neighbor refers to a situation in multi-tenant environments (like cloud infrastructure or shared servers) where one tenant consumes a disproportionate amount of shared resources—CPU, memory, network bandwidth, disk I/O—degrading performance for other tenants on the same system.
It's borrowed from the apartment analogy: one loud neighbor ruins the experience for everyone else in the building.