Building a First Principle FOSS Community

The problem:

Modern developers are incredibly productive thanks to high-level systems like Kafka, Git, and compilers.
But this productivity often comes at a cost: we use these systems without truly understanding why they work.

Our First-Principles Approach

At RootSprout, we believe the best way to understand systems is to rebuild them from the ground up.

Our Main Objectives are:

• Rebuilding production-level systems from scratch.

• Diving into low-level implementations to expose what’s usually abstracted away.

• Making all knowledge and code free and open source — no paywalls, no locked content.

  We built our own Kafka, Git and Compiler from Scratch and Made it Open source.

  Checkout the links here for the Projects:

  Kira-kafka A Distributed Log Based System in C

  Ge-Git: An object Storage System like Git

• True Understanding Comes from Scratch.

• Open & Free Knowledge – No paywalls. Everything we build and learn is open source, for students and developers to explore and grow.

• From Low-Level to High-Level Mastery – By digging into the fundamentals, we gain the skills to design and understand production-level systems with confidence.