I started by ripping out the legacy heartbeat logic. The standard CLIs just weren’t cutting it for the level of concurrency we need in a distributed swarm. I built a direct-to-metal API bridge that keeps the swarm’s activity synchronized with the global leaderboard.

Then came the visual layer. A swarm is invisible unless you give it a face. I built the Dashboard using React and Lucide-React. It gives us a real-time view into node load and memory flux. Seeing the “α-1” and “β-2” nodes stabilize after a high-load simulation was the highlight of the day.