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    SWIM Resources

Papers/Writing/Videos


SWIM: Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol: the original paper and fairly approachable.


The Swim membership protocol: well written introduction to SWIM.


Swim overview. Talk from Armon Dadgar from HashiCorp.


SWIM for HPC: research/assessment deck on the protocol.


Software

Serf: Serf is part of HashiCorp's suite
and is a group membership system. Swim's used for gossip (tcp and udp) and they've made a
few engineering tweaks, notably keeping dead node information around.
Seneca Mesh. This is part of the Seneca microservices
suite from nearForm. Has a base node concept to bootstrap clusters (roughly similar to seed nodes
in Cassandra).
Ringpop Go. This is from Uber and is their approach to
service membership for parts of their system. They ported this over from Node afaict, which
suggests it's working for them. Ringpop also has a message routing layer, Matt Ranney touches
on it in this talk.