The build guide forbasecamp
Learn end-to-end platform engineering by building the stack that frontier data platforms use — /root's 5 arcs produce basecamp, an open-source unified data + ML + AI platform. On your laptop, homelab, or cloud.
Tools change every 5 years.
Patterns don't change in 30.
Great engineers reason in patterns, not tools. /root builds that reflex from the first phase — pattern first, tool second, so when the tool changes the reflex still fires.
The 5 arcs produce
basecamp
8 modules on a K8s substrate. Each with its own repo, its own release cadence, its own visual identity. All composing into one unified platform.
The full curriculum is authored.
basecamp gets built as you go.
/root ships with all 7 Program docs and all 5 Arcs authored — 50 phase docs across Software Engineering Foundations, Backend Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Data Engineering & ML Foundations, and AI Infrastructure. Read what's here; work at your own pace.
Next milestones: Pattern library shell (v0.2.0) · Project plans + homelab guide + meta templates (v0.3.0) · Pattern deepening (v0.4.0+)