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Floci @floci.io · 21/09/2026

New Community Sponsor: Rod Jenkins (@scriptmonkey on GitHub), the first individual in that tier. Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed: no feature gates. Thank you, Rod. Join the Flock. github.com/sponsors/floci-io

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Floci @floci.io · 16/09/2026

Six months of Floci, the free local cloud emulator. 2.6M Docker pulls. Floci 2.0, with twenty new AWS services. The image got about 40% smaller. The honest part: the Azure, GCP and Oracle emulators have no maintainers, and it shows. www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-...

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State of the Flock #003: Six Months, 2.6 Million Pulls

Six months ago I open sourced Floci. This month it hit 2.

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Floci @floci.io · 12/09/2026

New Friend of the Flock: Daniel Silva (@danielsilva-loanpro on GitHub) Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed: no account, no auth token, no feature gates. Thank you, Daniel. Join the Flock. github.com/sponsors/floci-io

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Floci @floci.io · 27/08/2026

New Friend of the Flock: Ethan Troy (@ethanolivertroy on GitHub) Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed: no account, no auth token, no feature gates. Thank you, Ethan. Join the Flock. github.com/sponsors/floci-io

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Floci @floci.io · 25/08/2026

New Friend of the Flock: Ramperto Pasaribu (@ramperto on GitHub) Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed: no account, no auth token, no feature gates. Thank you, Ramperto. Join the Flock. github.com/sponsors/floci-io

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Floci @floci.io · 24/08/2026

New Friend of the Flock: kk (@kannandreams on GitHub) Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed: no account, no auth token, no feature gates. Thank you, kk. Join the Flock. github.com/sponsors/floci-io

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Floci @floci.io · 21/08/2026

New Friend of the Flock: chant chant builds typed infrastructure: plain TypeScript in, standard CloudFormation out. No DSL, no YAML, no lock-in. Sponsorship buys gratitude and nothing else. Floci stays free, MIT-licensed, no feature gates. Thank you, chant. Join the Flock. intentius.io/chant

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Floci @floci.io · 17/08/2026

Five months of Floci, the free local cloud emulator. 1.5M Docker pulls. A fourth cloud, Oracle. Our first in-person workshop. The maintainer list went from one to five. The honest part: releases slipped, three Testcontainers modules are dormant. www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-...

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State of the Flock #002: Five Months, Four Clouds

Five months since Floci went open source, and this was the month the project left the screen. The Flock met in person for the first time, at JConf Dominicana in Santiago.

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Floci @floci.io · 26/07/2026

Four months of Floci. 🎉 ☁️ 69 AWS services ☁️ Azure + GCP emulators ✅ 2,506 compatibility tests ⭐ 17.7k stars Still MIT. Still no account, no auth token, no feature gates. Any Cloud. Locally. State of the Flock 001 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-...

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Floci @floci.io · 05/07/2026

Happy Fourth of July from Floci Today's about freedom, so here's ours: run the whole cloud locally. No account, no auth token, no feature gates. Just docker compose up for AWS, GCP, and Azure. Any cloud. Locally. Free forever. Happy and safe Fourth to everyone celebrating. 🇺🇸

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Floci @floci.io · 30/06/2026

Stop juggling Azurite, the Cosmos emulator, and four ports to test one app. floci-az = 19 Azure services on one port (4577). Real services, SDK-compatible, not mocks. 1 Docker image. 24ms start. ~13 MiB. $0. Free + MIT: github.com/floci-io/flo... #Azure #DevOps #Test #LocalDev

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Frank Delporte @frankdelporte.be · 25/06/2026

From breadboard chaos to a real PCB. I designed my first custom PCB to run the Pi4J smoke test reliably on a Raspberry Pi: I2C, SPI, and GPIO tests, no more tangled jumper wires. The full story (schematic → ordering → results): webtechie.be/post/from-br... #Java #RaspberryPi #Pi4J #PCB

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From breadboard chaos to a real PCB: designing the Pi4J smoke test board · webtechie.be

Testing a Java I/O library properly means testing it on real hardware. No mocks, no stubs, just actual pins doing actual things. For Pi4J, that means running …

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Floci @floci.io · 21/06/2026

A local cloud your team and your AI agents can iterate against in milliseconds. Floci runs AWS, Azure & GCP as one native binary. Free, MIT, no auth token, real engines. Safe to break, reset a container instead of your staging account. floci.io

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 10/06/2026

First time using @floci.io (just for an S3 bucket) - ran via dotnet.testcontainers.org (there's a nuget package for that 😁) and huge levels of "just worked". Not new to running infra locally, but even so the lack of surprises was very welcome.

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Alina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Had a lot of fun learning more about @floci.io ☁️ from @hectorvent.dev! What a great project, and what a great use case of Native Image for fast startup, low memory usage, and easy installation across platforms.

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Floci @floci.io · 29/05/2026

Hi Lobsters community. I'd love to join lobste.rs. I'm Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev: I build Floci (an suite of cloud emulation platform for local dev and testing) . Would any existing member be willing to send me an invite? Happy to share more about my work if it helps.

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Lobsters

A computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.

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midudev · Miguel Ángel Durán @midu.dev · 13/05/2026

Este proyecto te permite tener AWS en local y gratis. Sin cuentas ni trucos. Perfecto para practicar. Se llama Floci y tiene 47 servicios: S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS... github.com/floci-io/floci

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Thibaud - kakawait @thibaud.dev · 18/05/2026

Lundi, découverte #OpenSource !💡 Entre #LocalStack qui verrouille de plus en plus de features et les éternels drames de licences (coucou MinIO 👀), ça devient un vrai casse-tête de trouver un mock AWS 100% libre pour le local. J'ai découvert Floci !🧵👇 go.thibaud.dev/b4NB #AWS #DevOps #TechFR

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Floci — Fast, Free AWS Emulator

Fast, free, open-source AWS emulator. No auth token. No restrictions. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack.

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Frank Delporte @frankdelporte.be · 25/05/2026

Are you building a cloud app, but want to test without spending money on #AWS, #GCP, or #Azure? #Floci to the rescue, built by @hectorvent.bsky.social with @quarkus.io and #GraalVM. All about it in this @foojay.io #Podcast. On YouTube or in your favorite podcast app. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyD...

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Run 35 AWS Services Locally FREE: Floci, Quarkus and GraalVM-Powered, LocalStack Alternative (#96)

YouTube video by Frank Delporte

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Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 28/05/2026

Floci starts in ~24ms and idles at 13 MiB. New post on the four open-source layers that make that possible: Netty, vertx.io, @quarkus.io, and @graalvm.org A thank-you to the projects free emulator stand on. dev.to/hectorvent/standing-on-shoulders-the-stack-that-makes-floci-start-in-24ms-45mk

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Standing on shoulders: the stack that makes Floci start in ~24ms

A thank-you note to the four open-source projects that make a free AWS emulator possible: Netty, Vert.x, Quarkus, and GraalVM.

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Floci @floci.io · 29/05/2026

Floci helps you emulate AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud locally. It is easy to get started: $ curl -fsSL floci.io/install.sh | sh $ floci start $ eval $(floci env) $ aws s3 mb s3://my-bucket github.com/floci-io/flo... #docker #terraform #devops #floci

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GraalVM @graalvm.org · 15/05/2026

A local AWS emulator that starts in 24 ms and uses just 13 MiB of idle memory? Meet Floci — free, open-source, and powered by @graalvm.org 🚀 github.com/floci-io/floci

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