ZIm/crates/collab
Antonio Scandurra 45af1fcc2f
Always double reconnection delay and add jitter (#35337)
Previously, we would pick an exponent between 0.5 and 2.5, which would
cause a lot of clients to try reconnecting in rapid succession,
overwhelming the server as a result.

This pull request always doubles the previous delay and introduces a
jitter that can, at most, double it.

As part of this, we're also increasing the maximum reconnection delay
from 10s to 30s: this gives us more space to spread out the reconnection
requests.

Release Notes:

- N/A

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Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <git@maxdeviant.com>
2025-07-30 15:34:09 +00:00
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k8s collab: Increase max database connections to 250 (#31553) 2025-05-27 16:48:50 -04:00
migrations Delete access tokens on user delete (#34036) 2025-07-08 10:08:17 -04:00
migrations.sqlite Delete access tokens on user delete (#34036) 2025-07-08 10:08:17 -04:00
migrations_llm collab: Drop billing_events table (#31131) 2025-05-21 22:43:46 +00:00
seed collab: Seed GitHub users from static data (#18301) 2024-09-24 16:35:09 -04:00
src Always double reconnection delay and add jitter (#35337) 2025-07-30 15:34:09 +00:00
.env.toml Move git status updates to a background thread #2 (#24722) 2025-02-14 16:47:11 +02:00
Cargo.toml Replace zed_llm_client with cloud_llm_client (#35309) 2025-07-30 00:09:14 +00:00
LICENSE-AGPL chore: Add crate licenses. (#4158) 2024-01-23 16:56:22 +01:00
postgrest_app.conf Add Postgrest to Docker Compose (#16498) 2024-08-19 20:50:45 -04:00
postgrest_llm.conf Add Postgrest to Docker Compose (#16498) 2024-08-19 20:50:45 -04:00
README.md docs: Update mentions to GitHub to use correct capitalization (#31996) 2025-06-03 14:55:24 -03:00
seed.default.json Add more admin to seed script (#34220) 2025-07-10 16:54:00 +00:00

Zed Server

This crate is what we run at https://collab.zed.dev.

It contains our back-end logic for collaboration, to which we connect from the Zed client via a websocket after authenticating via https://zed.dev, which is a separate repo running on Vercel.

Local Development

Database setup

Before you can run the collab server locally, you'll need to set up a zed Postgres database. Follow the steps sequentially:

  1. Ensure you have postgres installed. If not, install with brew install postgresql@15.
  2. Follow the steps on Brew's formula and verify your $PATH contains /opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@15/bin.
  3. If you hadn't done it before, create the postgres user with createuser -s postgres.
  4. You are now ready to run the bootstrap script:
script/bootstrap

This script will set up the zed Postgres database, and populate it with some users. It requires internet access, because it fetches some users from the GitHub API.

The script will create several admin users, who you'll sign in as by default when developing locally. The GitHub logins for the default users are specified in the seed.default.json file.

To use a different set of admin users, create crates/collab/seed.json.

{
  "admins": ["yourgithubhere"],
  "channels": ["zed"]
}

Testing collaborative features locally

In one terminal, run Zed's collaboration server and the livekit dev server:

foreman start

In a second terminal, run two or more instances of Zed.

script/zed-local -2

This script starts one to four instances of Zed, depending on the -2, -3 or -4 flags. Each instance will be connected to the local collab server, signed in as a different user from seed.json or seed.default.json.

Deployment

We run two instances of collab:

Both of these run on the Kubernetes cluster hosted in Digital Ocean.

Deployment is triggered by pushing to the collab-staging (or collab-production) tag in GitHub. The best way to do this is:

  • ./script/deploy-collab staging
  • ./script/deploy-collab production

You can tell what is currently deployed with ./script/what-is-deployed.

Database Migrations

To create a new migration:

./script/create-migration <name>

Migrations are run automatically on service start, so run foreman start again. The service will crash if the migrations fail.

When you create a new migration, you also need to update the SQLite schema that is used for testing.