tl;dr: Cloudflare is building Meerkat, an experimental globally-distributed consensus service based on EPFL's 2023 QuePaxa algorithm, to manage control-plane state across its 330+ data centers. Unlike Raft, QuePaxa is leaderless and avoids timeout-based leader elections, so writes remain available as long as a client can reach any replica connected to a majority—addressing outages Cloudflare has hit with Raft in high-variance wide-area networks. Meerkat provides linearizable reads/writes via a replicated log, is not yet in production, and will initially handle low-write-rate control data like database leadership.