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Fetched August 10th, 2026
Google

Agent Plugins package your skills, tools, and more

Developers had to maintain separate wrappers and configurations to make Agent Skills and MCP servers compatible with different AI coding agents and IDEs.

api-design microservices
5 min
Google

Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway

Developers needed a way to dynamically route API requests to different LLM providers (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI) without hardcoding endpoints or managing custom proxy infrastructure.

api-design load-balancing
5 min
Google

Scaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless updates

AI agent infrastructure needed to scale horizontally and support long-running interactive tasks without being constrained by stateful architecture patterns.

load-balancing distributed-systems
5 min
Google

Scaling real-time AI agents with session-aware load balancing

Real-time AI agents with long-lived stateful bidirectional streams cannot be effectively load-balanced using traditional request-response metrics because server capacity is obscured by the nature of continuous conversations.

load-balancing real-time-systems
5 min

Fetched August 3rd, 2026
Google

Agent and Model Evaluations in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now GA

Developers lack a consistent, standardized way to measure and evaluate the quality of AI agents across both local development and production environments.

api-design ml-systems
5 min
Google

Enable on-demand expertise with Agent Skills in Genkit Go

Preventing context window bloat and excessive token consumption when agents need access to specialized instructions and references.

api-design ml-systems
5 min
Google

How to use Google microbenchmarks for evaluating TPU performance

Engineers need a systematic way to diagnose performance bottlenecks in TPU-based machine learning workloads to understand whether they are constrained by compute, memory, or network resources.

ml-systems observability
5 min