floci ChronicleNotes and stories from the floci community.https://floci.io/en-usState of the Flock #004: Seven Months, Faster Than the Processhttps://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-004/https://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-004/Seven months in, the AWS emulator merged more pull requests in thirty days than in its first five months combined. The release train moves to the 15th and the last day of every month, and floci-gcp found contributors of its own.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-sourceEverything in Its Place: The October 6 Releasehttps://floci.io/chronicle/everything-in-its-place/https://floci.io/chronicle/everything-in-its-place/Floci's oldest file is gone: CloudFormation taken apart service by service, every resource kept in its own account, region and partition, and new services on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturareleaseannouncementopen-sourceState of the Flock #003: Six Months, 2.6 Million Pullshttps://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-003/https://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-003/Six Months, 2.6 Million PullsTue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-sourceState of the Flock #002: Five Months, Four Cloudshttps://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-002/https://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-002/Five Months, Four CloudsSat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-sourceState of the Flock #001: Four Months of Flocihttps://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-001/https://floci.io/chronicle/state-of-the-flock-001/Month four: 16.7k stars, 861k Docker pulls, 11 new AWS services across nine releases, and the start of a numbered monthly series about how Floci actually gets built, including the parts that are not going well.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-sourceEC2 Ports with socat: Opening Ports In-Flighthttps://floci.io/chronicle/opening-ec2-ports-in-flight-with-socat/https://floci.io/chronicle/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector VenturaengineeringawsdockerThree Months of Floci: 14k+ Stars, a Third Cloud, and a Community I Could Not Have Built Alonehttps://floci.io/chronicle/three-months-of-floci/https://floci.io/chronicle/three-months-of-floci/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.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-sourceWho Uses Floci? Apache Camel, Just Eat, and the UK Governmenthttps://floci.io/chronicle/whos-actually-using-floci/https://floci.io/chronicle/whos-actually-using-floci/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.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturaadoptionopen-sourcemigrationIntroducing Floci: Local Cloud Emulators, Free Foreverhttps://floci.io/chronicle/introducing-floci/https://floci.io/chronicle/introducing-floci/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.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFloci Teamannouncementopen-sourceAthena with floci-duck: Real AWS Athena Queries, Locallyhttps://floci.io/chronicle/floci-duck-local-athena/https://floci.io/chronicle/floci-duck-local-athena/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.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFloci Teamfloci-duckathenaduckdbs3glueWhy Local Cloud Development Mattershttps://floci.io/chronicle/why-local-cloud-development/https://floci.io/chronicle/why-local-cloud-development/Cloud bills, flaky staging environments, and slow CI pipelines are killing developer productivity. Here's the case for running your cloud stack locally.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFloci Teamdevexcloudproductivity30 Days of Floci: 4k Stars and a Growing Communityhttps://floci.io/chronicle/30-days-of-floci/https://floci.io/chronicle/30-days-of-floci/One month after the first commit: nearly 4,000 stars, 60+ contributors, 450+ merged pull requests, and a community that's just getting started.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTHector Venturacommunitymilestoneopen-source