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Serf Internals

This section goes over some of the internals of Serf, such as the gossip protocol, ordering of messages via lamport clocks, etc. This section also contains a useful convergence simulator that can be used to see how fast a Serf cluster will converge under various conditions with specific configurations.

Note that knowing about the internals of Serf is not necessary to successfully use it, but we document it here to be completely transparent about how the "magic" of Serf works.