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MCP Foundations and Enterprise Use Cases

  • What the Model Context Protocol is and where it fits in enterprise AI integration
  • How MCP servers and clients interact with models, tools, and backend systems
  • Common use cases, benefits, and constraints in team-based environments
  • Key design considerations for production adoption

Designing MCP Servers and Clients

  • Defining capabilities, contracts, and clear responsibilities between server and client components
  • Structuring tools, resources, and prompts for maintainability and reuse
  • Applying validation, consistent outputs, and useful error responses
  • Designing workflows that are practical for team ownership and support

Reliability and Security in Production

  • Handling failures, invalid requests, and downstream service issues
  • Using timeouts, retries, fallback strategies, and safe processing patterns
  • Applying authentication, authorization, and secret handling basics
  • Supporting auditability and controlled access to enterprise tools and data

Deployment, Observability, and Operations

  • Packaging and deploying MCP services in local, containerized, or cloud environments
  • Managing configuration, environment differences, and release workflows
  • Implementing logs, metrics, health checks, and alerting for runtime visibility
  • Troubleshooting common operational issues across clients and backend integrations

Testing, Versioning, and Change Management

  • Creating unit, integration, and contract tests for MCP workflows
  • Managing interface changes and compatibility over time
  • Validating releases before rollout and reducing upgrade risk
  • Using practical readiness checks for ongoing support and maintenance

Hands-On Implementation Workshop

  • Building a simple enterprise-ready MCP server and client workflow
  • Applying validation, resilience, security, and observability practices
  • Reviewing a production readiness checklist
  • Planning next steps for adoption within internal teams and platforms

Requirements

  • Familiarity with APIs, JSON, and basic client-server integration concepts
  • Experience using command-line tools, Git, and basic application deployment workflows
  • Basic programming experience in Python, JavaScript, or a similar language

Audience

  • Software developers building MCP-enabled applications and integrations
  • Solution architects and technical leads responsible for enterprise AI integration
  • Platform, DevOps, and engineering teams supporting production MCP services
 14 Hours

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