SNES 16-bit pixel art sky with a fluffy popcorn cloud (floccus) raining AWS service icons (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda) onto a pixel laptop, neon FLOCI sign above

Floci: a Free, Drop-in LocalStack Alternative Built on Quarkus

LocalStack Community froze in March 2026 and now asks for an auth token. Floci is the no-strings-attached replacement: a free, MIT-licensed, Quarkus-native local AWS emulator. I test it for real: AWS CLI, a real Lambda, two ways of wiring a Quarkus app (Dev Services and Testcontainers), and a LocalStack migration.

May 31, 2026 路 16 min 路 Matheus Oliveira
Java Evolution to Cloud Native

The Java Renaissance: From J2EE to Cloud Native with Quarkus

Explore the evolution of Java: from the heavyweight J2EE servers to Quarkus鈥檚 subatomic efficiency in a Cloud Native world.

January 24, 2026 路 6 min 路 Matheus Oliveira