Introducing Meerkat- an experiment in global consensus
- 2026-07-0812 min readMany internal services at Cloudflare need to read and modify the same control-plane state from across our 330+ global data centers.
- They need guarantees that different readers never see inconsistent state, and that the system remains available for writes even when some data centers or links fail.
- But Cloudflare’s network runs across the entire Internet, and the Internet is an unpredictable place.
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- 2026-07-0812 min readMany internal services at Cloudflare need to read and modify the same control-plane state from across our 330+ global data centers.
- They need guarantees that different readers never see inconsistent state, and that the system remains available for writes even when some data centers or links fail.
- But Cloudflare’s network runs across the entire Internet, and the Internet is an unpredictable place.
Sources: Cloudflare