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Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
Cloudflare Meerkat is a distributed consensus service designed to manage global control-plane state across its numerous data centers while ensuring strong consistency and fault tolerance. Unlike traditional consensus algorithms like Raft, which rely on a single leader, Meerkat uses the QuePaxa algorithm, allowing all replicas to write simultaneously and maintaining system availability even during failures.
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