Riak Core provides a superset of the features of Serf. Riak Core uses gossip to manage membership, but it also provides quorums for coordination, and is based a

Riak Core provides a superset of the features of Serf. Riak Core uses gossip to manage membership, but it also provides quorums for coordination, and is based around the notion of a hash ring and virtual nodes. You could instead using Serf to build riak core like technology on top.