floci ChronicleNotes and stories from the floci community.https://floci.io/en-usEverything 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