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kvcached Ships Prefix Caching for Cross-Request Reuse.

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kvcached now enables automatic prefix caching for vLLM and SGLang with elastic memory management. Multiple LLMs share a GPU without rigid partitioning. Red Hat's Sardeenz is building on it for dynamic multi-model Kubernetes serving.

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