Bootcamp — FossilRAG

3-week engineering bootcamp. Goal: build and demo FossilRAG, a serverless document enrichment and retrieval system, while completing 3 certification courses and 12 hands-on fix activities.

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Repo Structure

bootcamp/
├── courses/                    # Course notes + certificate links
│   ├── agentic-ai/
│   ├── aws-essentials/
│   ├── system-design/
│   └── claude-code-in-action/
├── activities/                 # 12 broken-repo fix activities
│   ├── week1/
│   │   ├── activity-01-lambda-pipeline/
│   │   ├── activity-02-llm-agent/
│   │   ├── activity-03-spark-dedup/
│   │   ├── activity-04-cloudformation-cost/
│   │   ├── activity-05-airflow-dag/
│   │   └── activity-06-scala-etl/
│   └── week2/
│       ├── activity-07-vector-search/
│       ├── activity-08-idempotent-embedding/
│       ├── activity-09-credentials/
│       ├── activity-10-cicd/
│       ├── activity-11-observability/
│       └── activity-12-fastapi-search/
└── fossilrag/                  # Main project (starts Week 2, Day 5)
    ├── ingestion/
    ├── chunking/
    ├── embedding/
    ├── api/
    ├── infra/
    ├── docker/
    └── docs/

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Weekly Schedule

Week	Days	Focus
1	Days 1–6	Agentic AI course + Activities 1–6
2 (first half)	Days 7–12	AWS + System Design courses + Activities 7–12
2 (Day 13) → Week 3	Days 13–18	FossilRAG project

Each activity lives in activities/weekN/activity-NN-*/:

• README.md — problem statement, what to fix, acceptance criteria
• broken/ — the broken code to fix
• Fix goes in the same folder; raise a PR per activity

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Certification Courses

Course	Hours	Status
Agentic AI	7h
AWS Technical Essentials	7h
System Design Foundations	7h
Claude Code in Action	—

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FossilRAG

Use case and mutations TBD — decided by Day 13. See fossilrag/ once project starts.