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MCP Fundamentals and Enterprise Applications

  • Understanding the Model Context Protocol and its role within enterprise AI integration
  • How MCP servers and clients interact with models, tools, and backend systems
  • Common use cases, benefits, and constraints within team-based environments
  • Key design considerations for successful production adoption

Designing MCP Servers and Clients

  • Defining capabilities, contracts, and distinct responsibilities between server and client components
  • Structuring tools, resources, and prompts to ensure maintainability and reusability
  • Applying validation, consistent output formats, and informative error responses
  • Designing workflows that facilitate team ownership and ongoing support

Reliability and Security in Production

  • Managing failures, invalid requests, and issues with downstream services
  • Utilising timeouts, retries, fallback strategies, and safe processing patterns
  • Implementing basics of authentication, authorisation, and secret management
  • Supporting auditability and controlling access to enterprise tools and data

Deployment, Observability, and Operations

  • Packaging and deploying MCP services in local, containerised, or cloud environments
  • Managing configuration, environmental 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 ensuring compatibility over time
  • Validating releases prior to rollout and minimising upgrade risks
  • Using practical readiness checks for ongoing support and maintenance

Hands-On Implementation Workshop

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

Requirements

  • Familiarity with APIs, JSON, and fundamental client-server integration concepts
  • Experience utilising command-line tools, Git, and standard application deployment workflows
  • Foundational programming experience in Python, JavaScript, or a comparable language

Target Audience

  • Software developers creating applications and integrations enhanced by MCP
  • Solution architects and technical leads overseeing enterprise AI integration
  • Platform, DevOps, and engineering teams responsible for supporting production MCP services
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