Is Vagrant important for developers?
#Vagrant is a tool for creating and managing virtualized development environments. Here are some reasons why developers might find Vagrant useful:
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Last Friday, May 22, 2026, the Dominican Republic Java Community had the privilege of hosting Steve Poole and Anthony Dahanne from HeroDevs at an in-person meetup.
We don’t usually organize meetups on Fridays, as attendance tends to be lower than on other days.
“Debezium requires Kafka” is one of the biggest outdated assumptions in CDC.
In 2026, Debezium supports a wide ecosystem of deployment models and integrations across Kafka Connect, standalone servers, application frameworks, and Python environments.
Here’s the reality 👇
Hi, I'm Hector, creator of @floci_io, an open-source local cloud emulator for AWS and Azure.
@lobsters I would love an invite to discuss distributed systems, Java, and AWS internals here. Who could help me? 😊
A local AWS emulator that starts in 24 ms and uses just 13 MiB of idle memory?
Meet Floci — free, open-source, and powered by @GraalVM 🚀
https://t.co/MW1u9DRw53
🚨 THIS FREE TOOL JUST MADE YOUR $200/MONTH AWS DEV BILL COMPLETELY OPTIONAL.
A team open sourced a full AWS emulator that boots 45 cloud services in under a second.
13 MiB of memory. No Docker, no subscription or bill.
It is called Floci. And the developer world just changed quietly.
Here is everything it killed overnight:
↳ $40/month LocalStack Pro
↳ AWS staging accounts burning $200+ every month
↳ Docker Desktop eating 4GB of RAM to fake a single S3 bucket
↳ 30 second cold starts before you can test one Lambda function
↳ CI pipelines slower than the actual tests they are running
Now here is what replaced all of that:
One Go binary. No dependencies. No config files. No setup wizard. No Docker daemon. No Python runtime. No Java VM.
Download it. Run it. Done.
Your average Chrome tab uses 200 times more RAM than this entire AWS clone. Let that sink in.
What is actually inside:
↳ S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, IAM, CloudFormation, Step Functions and more
↳ All 45 services running simultaneously in a single executable
↳ Sub-second boot time, faster than your terminal finishes rendering
↳ Full compatibility with existing AWS SDK and CLI, just point to localhost
↳ Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows
No code changes needed. No environment rewiring. Whatever your project already does against real AWS works against Floci on your laptop instantly.
The teams paying cloud bills to test code in development are about to feel very silly.
100% open source. Free forever.
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¡Anunciamos a Vicente Suc como conferencista en #JConfDominicana2026!
Vicente es cofundador de CSN y https://t.co/P9fjXVVeDI, co-líder del Java User Group y líder del AWS User Group Guatemala. Especializado en diseñar soluciones seguras y escalables en AWS.
📣 As part of Debezium’s move to @commonhaus_fdn, the weekly community forum is now open to everyone every Tuesday starting May 19 🚀
https://t.co/tIHi54Qt7Q
5K+ stars in 82 days
The Floci community growth has been incredible.
Open source.
Java + Quarkus.
Built for developers.
And we’re just getting started 👀
https://t.co/4mVjWBchF6
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