Claude Agent SDK architecture is incompatible with multi-tenant production web backends
Teams building multi-tenant AI assistants on Claude find the Agent SDK has fundamental limitations for production web use: 12-second subprocess spawn overhead per call, filesystem-based sessions that cannot scale horizontally, memory issues in long-running processes, and a Node.js subprocess dependency that conflicts with Python backends. The SDK saves significant upfront work but forces painful architectural rewrites at scale, leaving teams in a difficult position between convenience and production readiness.
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