Introducing Meerkat: An Experiment in Global Consensus

Cloudflare Research has introduced Meerkat, an experimental distributed consensus service built on QuePaxa.

Meerkat is designed to manage small pieces of internal control-plane state across more than 330 data centers.

It aims to avoid Raft-style leader bottlenecks and timeout-driven outages, keeping writes available during regional failures or network instability.

If successful, it could become a practical large-scale deployment of QuePaxa for strongly consistent global internal services.