[pettazz]

I don't have any particular use for this right now but the visualization is so good that I actually followed along and get what it's about. Pretty obvious to say but it's super cool and I wish more projects had this kind of quick intro/overview.

[haswell]

I see from elsewhere in the thread that this was a painstaking/manual effort and leverages D3.

Does anyone know if there are projects/libraries to help build this kind of visualization more generically? I realize that no library could every cover every possible use case, but I'd love some kind of framework that makes it easy to build out this kind of thing.

Reveal [1] is great for a web-based slideshow, but I'd love something that helps explain complex systems, even if that requires me to do some heavy lifting.

[1] https://revealjs.com/

[ddlutz]

Same! Raft is something I've heard about for years and always "wanted to get around to" learn, but this visualization just took care of most of that. Hoping there are other good visualizations like this in the future.

[content_sesh]

This visualization is very good. But the Raft paper itself is also quite understandable (and I say this as someone without any formal CS background who struggles getting through papers). It's main goal, aside from correctness, was understandability after all.

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/raft-atc14

I'd estimate it took me about 2 hours to get through it, but it felt very satisfying because I walked away saying "yup, I see how this works now". Give it a shot!