Author Archives: ronaldpringadi

Azure AD, Google Directory, and SCIM: picking a user-sync story for a multi-tenant Laravel app

Posted on December 5, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Late 2024 I spent a few weeks digging into how a multi-tenant Laravel platform I was working on should let tenant administrators pull users in from external identity providers. The customer asks were predictable — “we use Azure,” “we use … Continue reading →

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Free Azure AD SCIM provisioning to a Laravel app on your laptop, via home router + dynamic DNS

Posted on November 22, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

In the last post I sketched why SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) won out over direct Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Google Directory integrations for a multi-tenant Laravel app I was working on. This one is the hands-on … Continue reading →

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Laravel Jobs, Queues, Batches, and Redis: A Field Guide

Posted on June 15, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel’s queue system is one of those features you can use for years without really understanding what’s happening underneath. You call SomeJob::dispatch(), a worker somewhere picks it up, and life goes on. But the moment a job mysteriously runs twice, … Continue reading →

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Laravel Sail: a developer’s cheat sheet 🐳

Posted on September 25, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel ships with Sail — a thin command-line wrapper around docker compose that gives you the whole Laravel toolchain (PHP, MySQL, Redis, Mailpit, Node) in containers, without you needing to install any of them on your host. The only thing … Continue reading →

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The Core AWS Stack vs Lightsail: When Building Blocks Beat the Bundle

Posted on March 14, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives you a Lego bin the size of a warehouse. Powerful, but overwhelming when you just want a website online. Before you can decide whether the full stack is worth the complexity, it helps to know … Continue reading →

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GraphQL for Java Developers: What You Actually Need to Know

Posted on August 12, 2022 by ronaldpringadi

GraphQL has been on the Java back-end radar for a while, mostly as something the front-end team kept bringing up. In 2022 that shifted. Spring for GraphQL 1.0 became generally available in May. The official Spring team now provides first-party … Continue reading →

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Apache Kafka vs RabbitMQ for Messaging in Java (and Where ActiveMQ Fits In)

Posted on August 9, 2022 by ronaldpringadi

If you’re standing in front of a whiteboard in Java land and someone has just drawn a box labelled “message queue,” you’re probably going to argue about Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ for the next forty minutes. They’ve become the default … Continue reading →

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Java Web Servers Compared: Tomcat, JBoss EAP, WildFly, and Spring Boot

Posted on April 12, 2022 by ronaldpringadi

If you’ve been writing Java for the web at any point in the last two decades, you’ve had to pick a web server or application server at least once. The choices haven’t changed much in name — Tomcat, JBoss, WildFly, … Continue reading →

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Starting a Spring Boot API Microservice From Scratch With Spring Initializr

Posted on September 15, 2021 by ronaldpringadi

The fastest way to get a new Java microservice off the ground is also the most boring one, and that’s a compliment. You go to start.spring.io, click a few checkboxes, download a zip, and you have a runnable Hypertext Transfer … Continue reading →

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Why Ember.js Still Makes Sense for Big Teams Building Big Apps

Posted on September 14, 2020 by ronaldpringadi

In a JavaScript world dominated by React’s flexibility and Vue’s friendliness, Ember.js can feel like the quiet older sibling who keeps showing up to work in a suit. It’s opinionated, batteries-included, and unapologetically convention-driven. Which is exactly why some of … Continue reading →

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