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Work distribution with OCluster

We use OCluster to manage the build cluster for the CI services backing OCaml-CI and opam-repo-ci. However, it is a general-purpose tool and isn’t tied to being a build system; it can distribute any jobs across multiple worker machines.

09 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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Devcontainer for using O(x)Caml and Claude in your projects

A prebuilt Docker devcontainer for sandboxed OCaml and OxCaml development with Claude Code, including multiarch builds and network isolation.

08 Jan 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Keeping your branch up-to-date

My Arm32 branch will quickly go stale and will need to be rebased and tested. Can GitHub Actions do that for me automatically?

01 Dec 2025

Marc Elvers

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Apache Parquet Files

If you haven’t discovered the Apache Parquet file format, allow me to introduce it along with ClickHouse.

17 Sep 2025

Marc Elvers

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Posthog on OCaml.org

Sabine would like to switch OCaml.org from using Plausible over to Posthog. The underlying reason for the move is that the self-hosted product from Posthog has more features than the equivalent from Plausible. Of particular interest is the heatmap feature to assess the number of visitors who finish the Tour of OCaml.

12 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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