Reposted by Hector Venturamidudev · Miguel Ángel Durán @midu.dev · 21/09/2026AWS en local, sin cuenta ni tokens y sin suscripciones. También disponible para Azure y Google Cloud. ✓ S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS… ✓ Para practicar y para CI ✓ Docker compose y listo → github.com/floci-io/floci 2131
Reposted by Hector VenturaGoldislops @goldislops.bsky.social · 24/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s46...youtube.comThis Tool Runs Real AWS Services on Your Laptop For Free (Floci)YouTube video by Better Stack 021
Reposted by Hector VenturaGraalVM @graalvm.org · 07/09/2026Already this week! Join @thomaswue.dev at the @intellijidea.com conference as he explores sandboxing AI agents with @graalvm.org. lp.jetbrains.com/intellij-ide... 063
Reposted by Hector VenturaData Lab Tech @datalabtechtv.com · 01/09/2026This looks useful, if you're trying to learn cloud engineering. #local #selfhosted #aws #azure #gcp floci.iofloci.ioFloci — Local Cloud EmulatorsFloci runs AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: a fast, free, credential-free feedback loop for developers and AI coding agents. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token. 031
Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 01/09/2026The train is when we cut a tag and write the notes, not when the work reaches you. docker pull floci/floci:nightly Merged today, in your hands tomorrow morning. Same for floci-az, floci-gcp and floci-oci. What shipped today: github.com/floci-io/flo...github.comReleases · floci-io/flociLight, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative - floci-io/floci 000
Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 01/09/2026Second Floci release train leaves today. Releases run on a schedule now: first and third Tuesday, all four emulators, same day. A minor bump means new work landed, patches ship out of band. Nightlies build daily from main, so you never wait for the train. Join the Flock. github.com/floci-iogithub.comFlociAny Cloud. Locally. Floci has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. 110
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 25/08/2026New 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 021
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 24/08/2026New 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 041
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 21/08/2026New 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 031
Reposted by Hector VenturaQuarkus @quarkus.io · 20/08/2026We released Quarkus 3.38.3 with some bugfixes for our 3.38 stream. quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...quarkus.ioQuarkus 3.38.3 - Maintenance releaseQuarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java 012
Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 18/08/2026Thank you to the great community that supports floci. Five months and it feels like the whole year. Let's keep emulating! 010
Reposted by Hector VenturaAlina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Open World for Native Image 🌎 Your Native Image application can now load new classes at runtime, while keeping all benefits of AOT optimizations 🚀 Best of both worlds! To use it: build with @graalvm.org 25.1+ and `-H:+RuntimeClassLoading`. 12210
Reposted by Hector VenturaIvar Grimstad @theguywiththeduketattoo.com · 19/07/2026Hashtag Jakarta EE number 342 is out! Read about floci, Jakarta EE 12 progress, and links to articles by Rustam and Lenny #JakartaEE #EclipseFoundation #Communityagilejava.euHashtag Jakarta EE #342Welcome to issue number three hundred and forty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am currently at JConf Dominicana 2026. I will post a separate post about the conference shortly. But I will mention the session I am attending right now, which is a presentation about floci by Hector Ventura. In short, floci is a drop-in replacement for LocalStack that lets you emulate any cloud environment locally. 061
Reposted by Hector VenturaLars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 01/05/2026There's one for Azure too, though a lot less comprehensive: github.com/floci-io/flo...github.comGitHub - floci-io/floci-az: Light, fluffy, and always free - Local Azure EmulatorLight, fluffy, and always free - Local Azure Emulator - floci-io/floci-az 031
Reposted by Hector VenturaAditya Mitra @adityamitra.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Found this to better than localstack It runs substantially less (by 90%) ram for running aws services github.com/floci-io/floci #aitools #opensource #github #observabilitygithub.comGitHub - floci-io/floci: Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternativeLight, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative - floci-io/floci 181
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 30/06/2026Stop 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 041
Reposted by Hector VenturaRob Richardson @robrich.bsky.social · 18/06/2026github.com/floci-io/floci - #Floci is a #free and #OpenSource local emulator for #AWS.github.comGitHub - floci-io/floci: Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternativeLight, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative - floci-io/floci 021
Reposted by Hector Venturaharshaljethwaa.bsky.social @harshaljethwaa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Want to learn AWS without paying cloud bills? 💸 Run AWS locally with Floci. All on my laptop. 🔥 53 AWS Services 🔥 Completely Free #AWS #LocalStack #DevOps #CloudComputing #Terraform #Serverless medium.com/p/building-a...medium.comBuilding a Complete AWS Environment Locally with FlociCloud engineers often want to learn AWS services, build event-driven architectures, test Terraform code, and practice CI/CD pipelines… 032
Reposted by Hector VenturaMurph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 10/06/2026First 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. 032
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 21/06/2026A 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 042
Reposted by Hector VenturaAlina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Had 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. 172
Reposted by Hector VenturaGraalVM @graalvm.org · 17/06/2026A local AWS emulator that starts in 24 ms and uses just 13 MiB of idle memory? 🚀 Join us as we talk with @hectorvent.dev, the creator of Floci — free, open source, and powered by @graalvm.org 🐰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVQ...youtube.comFloci: a fast and lightweight AWS emulator, powered by GraalVM 🚀YouTube video by GraalVM 🚀 0114
Reposted by Hector VenturaThomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 12/06/2026Spring AI 2.0 is now available 🚀 it supports both Spring Boot 4.0 and 4.1. I worked on automated OpenRewrite recipes to upgrade your applications to the new version, taking care of many breaking changes introduced in this new major. All free and open source. docs.arconia.io/arconia-migr... 031
Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 08/06/2026This sounds interesting... I would like to be there and share how we are using GraalVM on floci.iofloci.ioFloci — Local Cloud EmulatorsFloci is a suite of fast, free, open-source cloud emulators for AWS, Azure, and GCP. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token, no restrictions. 120
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 29/05/2026Floci 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 051
Reposted by Hector VenturaThibaud - kakawait @thibaud.dev · 18/05/2026Lundi, 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 #TechFRgo.thibaud.devFloci — Fast, Free AWS EmulatorFast, free, open-source AWS emulator. No auth token. No restrictions. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack. 152
Reposted by Hector Venturamidudev · Miguel Ángel Durán @midu.dev · 13/05/2026Este 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 0305
Reposted by Hector VenturaFloci @floci.io · 04/06/2026floci-gcp doesn't model GCP's wire format. It implements the server side of Google's own protobuf stubs. Deep dive: dev.to/hectorvent/h... floci.io/gcp #GCP #Terraform #DevOpsdev.toHow floci-gcp builds GCP wire compatibility on Google's own protobuf (and stays maintainable)A local GCP emulator that doesn't model the wire format at all. Instead it implements the server side of Google's own generated protobuf stubs. Here's why that's the whole trick. 131
Reposted by Hector VenturaFrank Delporte @frankdelporte.be · 30/05/2026New @foojay.io #podcast: "From Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse: How BoxLang Is Redefining JVM Development." With Luis Majano and Cris Escobar about BoxLang, a modern dynamic #JVM language for rapid development. On YouTube and in your favorite podcast app! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPs...youtube.comFrom Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse: How BoxLang Is Redefining JVM Development (#97)YouTube video by Frank Delporte 042
Reposted by Hector VenturaQuarkus @quarkus.io · 27/05/2026We released Quarkus 3.36. It comes with the new (and experimental!) Quarkus Signals extension, a unified event bus for Quarkus. See our announcement for the full list of changes! quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...quarkus.ioQuarkus 3.36 - Quarkus Signals, embedded SBOMs, OIDC SPIFFE authentication, and moreQuarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java 0116
Hector Ventura @hectorvent.dev · 28/05/2026Floci 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-45mkdev.toStanding on shoulders: the stack that makes Floci start in ~24msA thank-you note to the four open-source projects that make a free AWS emulator possible: Netty, Vert.x, Quarkus, and GraalVM. 051
Reposted by Hector VenturaThomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 27/05/2026Using Spring Cloud AWS to integrate your Java apps with S3, DynamoDB, SQS? In this article, I show how to improve the workflows for local development and testing using Floci, an open-source AWS emulator by @hectorvent.bsky.social, and @arconia.io Dev Services. www.thomasvitale.com/spring-cloud...thomasvitale.comLocal Development with Spring Cloud AWS, Floci, and Arconia Dev ServicesRun Spring Cloud AWS applications locally with Floci and Arconia Dev Services: a single dependency, fully open-source, no LocalStack token. 161
Reposted by Hector VenturaFoojay, the Friends Of OpenJDK @foojay.io · 26/05/2026New podcast episode! @frankdelporte.be and @hectorvent.bsky.social talk about #Floci, a GraalVM-powered alternative to LocalStack for local AWS, Azure, and GCP development. foojay.io/today/foojay... #Java #GraalVM #AWS #CloudDevfoojay.ioFoojay Podcast #96: Local AWS Development Without LocalStack: Meet Floci, the GraalVM-Powered Alternativefoojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More. 083
Reposted by Hector VenturaFrank Delporte @frankdelporte.be · 25/05/2026Are 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...youtube.comRun 35 AWS Services Locally FREE: Floci, Quarkus and GraalVM-Powered, LocalStack Alternative (#96)YouTube video by Frank Delporte 093
Reposted by Hector VenturaGraalVM @graalvm.org · 15/05/2026A 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 0148