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What is Serf? Service orchestration and management tool. Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages.

What is Libraries.io? Discover open source packages, modules and frameworks you can use in your code. It is an open source web service that lists software development project dependencies and alerts developers to new versions of the software libraries they are using.

Serf and Libraries.io belong to "Open Source Service Discovery" category of the tech stack.

Serf is an open source tool with 4.74K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Serf's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Libraries.io?

It is an open source web service that lists software development project dependencies and alerts developers to new versions of the software libraries they are using.

What is Serf?

Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages.

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