During January 2026, Lachlan Abbott developed a new feature for the GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-fabric repository, focusing on enhancing the regional external application load balancer. He implemented locality load balancing policies and introduced cookie-based session affinity validation, enabling more accurate regional routing and improved session persistence. Using Terraform and leveraging skills in cloud computing and infrastructure as code, Lachlan updated both the module and its documentation to support these new capabilities. The work addressed the need for more granular traffic distribution and session management in cloud environments, demonstrating a solid understanding of load balancing strategies and practical application of infrastructure automation tools.