A Cloudflare post about Meerkat, a consensus system they built to keep control plane state consistent across their 330 plus data centers. It runs on QuePaxa, an algorithm that needs no leader. In Raft a dead leader or a slow network stalls writes until a new one is elected, and the timeouts are hard to tune across the wide area internet. QuePaxa instead lets any replica propose a write at any time, and concurrent proposals help each other reach agreement rather than block each other. The post is honest about the cost, since each write still takes one to three round trips, so Meerkat suits data that changes rarely and must stay correct rather than a busy database. It is also the first time QuePaxa has run at production scale.