Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)

151 pointsby theanonymousone14 hours ago29 comments

huffer 12 hours ago

I just spilled my coffee; sorry for the trivial remark, but the name means 'pubic hairs' in Romanian. Apologies.. I thought it's better for you to know and ignore than not to (not quite a big population target for you, I imagine, anyway).

pi-victor 11 hours ago

you got here before me, had a good laugh tho.

dazzatron 11 hours ago

schaamhaar.io was already taken

OptionOfT 4 hours ago

Risky copy-paste of the day.

Vasbarlog 8 hours ago

Also means cum in greek https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/φλόκι

mitxela 7 hours ago

Do Greek people really say "Here comes the spunk!" when they're... you know?

Vasbarlog 6 hours ago

Hahahaha, have never personally heard that.

stavros 16 minutes ago

Do English speakers say that?!

khimaros 6 hours ago

though not nearly as popular of an expression in that category as μαλάκας

coolca 7 hours ago

Also it means gays (not in a flattering way) in italian if you just change a letter.

stevekemp 7 hours ago

One of the later pages mentions that the name came from "cirrocumulus floccus", the cloud formation.

adrian_b 6 hours ago

In this case it is misspelled.

The Latin word is "flocci", which means hairs of wool, and it was also used to denote an insignificant thing.

English normally preserves the double consonants of Latin, and in this case it has already done this in the English words derived from "floccus", e.g. "to flocculate" and "flocculent".

In clouds, it was used due to the resemblance of those clouds with curly sheep wool.

illiac786 2 hours ago

You mean like Flikr, sonarr, tumblr, Waze…?

luis_cho 5 hours ago

There was once a cloud conference in Brazil called ConaCloud. I'm guessing "cona" means something different in Brazilian Portuguese than it does in European Portuguese. In Portugal is a slang word for vagina.

nxobject 2 hours ago

As Coq (now Rcoq) found to their chagrin... I'm convinced half of the reason Lean has surpassed Coq in mindshare in formal mathematics was because it's impossible to not chuckle at the name sometimes.

thegagne 9 hours ago

The cool part of this is it’s an example of what’s possible with a community of users armed with AI.

Many users, (myself included), had need to test cloud stuff locally, but had no tool to do so. Localstack exists, but it started rug pulling the free tier and they didn’t support all the features.

Meanwhile, Floci makes it easy to write your own cloud compatible test suite, then implement the feature to match. I was able to get a good enough coverage on a few features created in a weekend on the $20 tier of Claude to make it useful to me, then others picked up the work to round it out.

It’s really cool to see it grow.

didgeoridoo 7 hours ago

I’d love to see this for stuff like Stripe, Twilio, etc - they’ve got sandboxes but this would be a lot easier and faster.

catlifeonmars 5 hours ago

Both localstack and floci live in this weird spot where for a lot of my applications, all the cloud-vendor specific stuff is abstracted out anyway. So the only time I need to touch the cloud is for testing the abstractions and do end to end testing. The abstractions can be tested against real cloud APIs as it is generally cheap to do and provides the highest fidelity results. End to end testing includes testing against a production-like environment, so again, more bang for your buck to just test against the cloud.

I’ve definitely reached for these local cloud tools from time to time, but in a well-architected piece of software, you aren’t getting that much value from them. Either you don’t have a hard cloud dependency, or you want a high fidelity test of a specific cloud dependency.

microflash 9 hours ago

Been using it for a while to run integration tests with Testcontainers [1]. It's very good and much more lightweight than Localstack.

[1]: https://testcontainers.com/

aeagentic 11 hours ago

Would someone be interested in this but intended for production? Im already running a whole bunch of cloudflare and AWS services in my own AWS fake and it works surprisingly well! :)

michaelastreiko 4 hours ago

Local stubs for cloud services are a lifesaver when you're a one-person shop and don't want a surprise bill just to test a webhook path.

kikimora 38 minutes ago

How on earth I never came across this before? ChatGPD does not know about this project either. Looks very, very promising!

mkirsten 9 hours ago

This looks very cool! Is this only intended for testing and development, or as a feasible way to migrante away from e.g., GCP as well?

I’m interested in something that would allow me to over time migrante away from a GCP project that uses many services today - e.g., Datastore, FileStorage etc.

_bohm 9 hours ago

Definitely not feasible to migrate off of actual cloud services using something like this.

VoidWhisperer 6 hours ago

Most likely a false positive, but worth noting for the people who run the project: Malwarebytes currently flags the site as 'potentially unsafe' when trying to visit it - not sure what the best avenue for them to get that fixed beyond reaching out to Malwarebytes might be

n738 6 hours ago

This is awesome, hope to see it mature over the years!

kwkelly 8 hours ago

fakecloud is another project in the space, AWS only though https://fakecloud.dev/

rirze 6 hours ago

I'm using fakecloud and it's dead simple to use. (like you said, aws only)

elendilm 12 hours ago

Good work.

For us, floci-oci for object storage looks interesting. For everything else we have our own stack.