Gossip-based Membership Serf relies on an efficient and lightweight gossip protocol to communicate with nodes. The Serf agents periodically exchange messages with each other in much the same way that a zombie apocalypse would occur: it starts with one zombie but soon infects everyone. In practice, the gossip is very fast and extremely efficient. Failure Detection Serf is able to quickly detect fai
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