Cloudflare Introduces Meerkat for Globally Distributed Consensus

Cloudflare announced a new project named Meerkat. Meerkat is designed to achieve consensus across globally distributed nodes. The system targets use cases that require coordinated state among many locations. It leverages Cloudflare’s extensive network infrastructure. The announcement was made via the company’s official blog. Technical details were not disclosed in the brief release. Meerkat could influence future distributed application designs. Further information is expected in upcoming blog posts.