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ShiViz is described in several publications:

• Visualizing Distributed System Executions, TOSEM 2020

  @article{BeschastnikhLXWBE2020,
     author  = {Ivan Beschastnikh and Perry Liu and Albert Xing
                and Patty Wang and Yuriy Brun and Michael D. Ernst},
     title   = {{Visualizing Distributed System Executions}},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},
     volume  = {29},
     number  = {2},
     pages   = {9:1--9:38},
     month   = Mar,
     year    = {2020}
  }
  

• A previous version appeared as “Debugging distributed systems: Challenges and options for validation and debugging” by Ivan Beschastnikh, Patty Wang, Yuriy Brun, and Michael D. Ernst. Communications of the ACM, vol. 59, no. 8, Aug. 2016, pp. 32-37.

Wiki: explains ShiViz in more detail

JS docs: documentation extracted from code

DistributedClocks: ShiViz-compatible vector-clock instrumentation libraries for C/C++/Java/Go

Sass: a CSS preprocessor for easier and more intuitive styling

• Installation: instructions for setting up Sass
• Basics: a quick guide to basic features in Sass
• Sassmeister: test out Sass in real time
• To compile a SCSS file into valid CSS from the command line, use: $ sass input.scss output.css --style expanded