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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](/docs/internals/simulator.html)
that can be used to see how fast a Serf cluster will converge under
various conditions with specific configurations.

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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.
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