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Cloudflare Unveils Meerkat, a New Global Consensus Service
Cloudflare Research is developing Meerkat, a global consensus service powered by a novel algorithm called QuePaxa. The service aims to enable a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store and other applications. This experiment could improve reliability for distributed systems across the internet.
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While promising, Meerkat faces an uphill battle against established consensus protocols like Raft and Paxos, and its real-world performance remains unproven.
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