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Thoughts on local cloud development, open source, and developer tooling.

engineeringawsdocker

Opening EC2 ports in-flight with socat

Docker only publishes ports at container creation, so how does Floci open a port on a running EC2 instance without restarting it? One tiny socat sidecar per port.

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communitymilestoneopen-source

Three Months of Floci: 14k+ Stars, a Third Cloud, and a Community I Could Not Have Built Alone

Month three: 14k stars, 1.3k forks, floci-gcp goes live as the third cloud, floci-ui brings a visual console, and 147 contributors building the future of local cloud emulation.

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Who's Actually Using Floci? Apache Camel, Just Eat, and the UK Government

A snapshot of public LocalStack-to-Floci migrations. Major frameworks, established companies, and government engineering teams, each with the source PR so you can check the work.

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Real AWS Athena Queries, Locally with floci + floci-duck

floci emulates AWS Athena with real DuckDB-powered SQL execution. Use boto3 or the AWS CLI against localhost:4566. No AWS account, no per-query charges.

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announcementopen-source

Introducing floci: Local Cloud Emulators, Free Forever

floci brings AWS, Azure, and GCP to your laptop with zero accounts, zero tokens, and sub-second startup. Here's why we built it and what's next.

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devexcloudproductivity

Why Local Cloud Development Matters

Cloud bills, flaky staging environments, and slow CI pipelines are killing developer productivity. Here's the case for running your cloud stack locally.

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30 Days of Floci: 4k Stars and a Growing Community 🚀

One month after the first commit: nearly 4,000 stars, 60+ contributors, 450+ merged pull requests, and a community that's just getting started.

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