Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
We replaced Raft with a JEV-style decision model.
Consensus is fundamentally a reasoning problem. Why rely on deterministic leader election when a model can evaluate each node's leadership potential?
We've replaced quorum with confidence scores.
Write throughput dropped 99.98% but the cluster is finally making informed decisions.