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Cloudflare Meerkat

Cloudflare's globally distributed consensus service.

At a glance:

First seen:2026-07-08

Last seen:2026-07-08

Times seen:1

Website:blog.cloudflare.com

The short version

Cloudflare's globally distributed consensus service.

Why it caught our attention

The thread surfaced real distributed-systems pain that this product is meant to address.

Where it surfaced on Hacker News

2026-07-08

Editorial paraphrase

People said it could be a useful building block, and one commenter called it genuinely useful for messy Raft-cluster problems.

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus