Yup! I dislike how it is being sold as some thing new.. it is a Paxos/Viewstamp-Replication step by step guide, if you want to replicate a log where there is a

Yup! I dislike how it is being sold as some thing new.. it is a Paxos/Viewstamp-Replication step by step guide, if you want to replicate a log where there is a strong causal relation between updates. If you want to replicate entities that are independent there many simplifications that can be made for failover. The good thing that has come out of this is that in internal meetings with folks who have read the Google Paxos paper (not my fav paper, leads to blind pessimism about the prospects of implementing paxos without understanding how to contextualize) you can still sell the same solution by calling it raft.