ARCHITECT
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Cloudflare Introduces Meerkat for Strongly Consistent Global Coordination
BY
Renato Losio
SOURCE
InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News
DATE
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1 min read
Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency, …
Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency, improving availability across Cloudflare’s global network. By Renato Losio