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page_title: "Internals"
sidebar_current: "docs-internals"
description: |-
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: 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.
