Cloudflare launches Meerkat: leaderless consensus for global control‑plane state
Cloudflare unveiled Meerkat, a globally‑distributed consensus service built on the leaderless QuePaxa algorithm. Unlike Raft, every replica can write at any time, eliminating leader‑timeout outages and keeping control‑plane state strongly consistent across its 330+ data centers. The rollout promises higher availability for critical routing and AI‑model placement services.