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Engineering Blogs · November 6, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 269 words
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Bringing AI-Aware Traffic Management to Istio: Gateway API Inference Extension Support

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GNOME has a new infrastructure partner: welcome AWS!

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Azure Managed Redis is GA today

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