2026-07-09

Cloudflare blog post introducing Meerkat, a new global consensus service built on the QuePaxa algorithm

Notable systems/infrastructure piece on consensus design beyond Raft, especially for globally distributed control planes.

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What it is: Cloudflare blog post introducing Meerkat, a new global consensus service built on the QuePaxa algorithm

Gist: Cloudflare is building Meerkat for strongly consistent control-plane state across 330+ data centers, arguing that leader-and-timeout-heavy approaches like Raft are a poor fit for hostile WAN conditions and that QuePaxa’s all-replicas-can-write model better matches their network.

Newsletter angle: Notable systems/infrastructure piece on consensus design beyond Raft, especially for globally distributed control planes.