Meerkat

Cloudflare is building an experimental consensus service using a never-before-deployed consensus algorithm, QuePaxa. In this post we explain how QuePaxa works and why we chose it.

João Pedro Leite,  Bob Halley, and James Larisch

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

James Larisch,  Bob Halley, and João Pedro Leite