Zed's Cloud Infrastructure Rebuild: Migrating to Rust-Based Zed Cloud on Cloudflare Workers
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Summary
The article details the author's five-month effort to rebuild Zed's cloud infrastructure, moving from the legacy Collab backend to a new Rust-based system called Zed Cloud running on Cloudflare Workers. The author explains the technical challenges of the migration, including maintaining backward compatibility while implementing new features, and discusses the benefits of the new architecture for scalability and future development.
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Our current backend—known as Collab—has been chugging along since basically the beginning of the company.
We use Collab every day to work together on Zed in Zed.
Like Zed itself, Zed Cloud is built in Rust.
This time around there is a slight twist: all of this is running on Cloudflare Workers, with our Rust code...
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