Cloudflare announces Meerkat using QuePaxa

Cloudflare announced Meerkat, an experimental distributed consensus service designed for its global control plane, powered by an unusual consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. The company chose QuePaxa over traditional algorithms like Raft and Paxos because it avoids relying on a single leader or strict fault detection, making it more resilient to latency spikes and volatile wide-area network conditions. Open article →