Standing on Shoulders: The Stack That Makes Floci Start in 24ms
This is a cross-post. I wrote this up for the dev.to audience. For the full architecture, benchmarks, and SDK compatibility …
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Why Floci Is Built in Java (and Why That's the Right Call in 2026)
This is a cross-post. I wrote this up for the dev.to audience. For the full architecture, benchmarks, and SDK compatibility …
The Floci Philosophy: Stay Tiny, Feel Like Real AWS
This is a cross-post. I wrote up the design philosophy behind Floci for the dev.to audience. For the full architecture, …
Floci Storage Modes: Pick the Right Trade-off Per Service
This is a cross-post. I wrote this up for the dev.to audience. For the full architecture, benchmarks, and SDK compatibility …
Floci on dev.to: the Short Version
This is a cross-post. I wrote a shorter, community-friendly intro to Floci for the dev.to audience. If you want the full …
Being Part of the Quarkus Journey: One of the First 1,000 Contributors
In late 2019, the Java world was buzzing with a new name: Quarkus. Promising “Supersonic Subatomic Java,” it aimed to fix the long …
Contributing to the Data Streaming Revolution: Debezium
In the world of modern data architectures, Change Data Capture (CDC) has become a cornerstone for building reactive, event-driven …
My Journey as a Linux Admin Instructor (2007 to 2012)
Looking back at my career, one of the most rewarding chapters was the time I spent as a Linux Administration instructor at …
Introducing Floci: The Fast, Free, and Open-Source AWS Emulator
Local development against AWS services has always been painful. You either run real AWS (expensive, slow, requires an internet …