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      <p class="lead col-sm-8">Welcome to the developer documentation for Istio.
      Here you can learn about key istio concepts, find quick starts, reference
      material, and tutorials for on how to use various Istio features, and more. If you’re new to Istio we recommend that you read <a href="guides/"><b>What is
      istio?</b></a> to find out more about our system and how it works. Or, if you want to see Istio in action first, visit the <a href="samples/">Samples</a>. </p>

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          <a class="lang-card-link" href="tutorials/basic/">gRPC Basics Tutorial</a>
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          <div class="lang-card-title">APIs</div>
          <a class="lang-card-link" href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-bigtable-client">Traffic Management APIs</a>
          <a class="lang-card-link" href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/03/announcing-grpc-alpha-for-google-cloud-pubsub">Policy Management APIs</a>
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          <a class="lang-card-link" href="https://nghttp2.org/blog/2015/03/24/proxying-grpc-with-nghttpx/">FILL ME</a>
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