On-Demand: The Updated MCP Spec: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The latest MCP Specification brings major improvements for building production-ready AI systems, but it also introduces new implementation challenges.
In this hands-on workshop, we'll break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the latest spec, explaining not just what's changed, but what it means for anyone building MCP clients, servers, or gateways.
You'll learn:
- The Good: How stateless, self-contained requests simplify architecture and improve security, scalability, and interoperability.
- The Bad: Why clients are now responsible for gracefully downgrading when peers don't support the latest specification, and what that means for compatibility.
- The Ugly: How HTTP headers become the source of truth when requests pass through non-MCP-aware proxies, and what that means for real-world deployments.
Leave with a practical understanding of the updated MCP Specification and the knowledge you need to adopt it with confidence in production.
The latest MCP Specification brings major improvements for building production-ready AI systems, but it also introduces new implementation challenges.
In this hands-on workshop, we'll break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the latest spec, explaining not just what's changed, but what it means for anyone building MCP clients, servers, or gateways.
You'll learn:
- The Good: How stateless, self-contained requests simplify architecture and improve security, scalability, and interoperability.
- The Bad: Why clients are now responsible for gracefully downgrading when peers don't support the latest specification, and what that means for compatibility.
- The Ugly: How HTTP headers become the source of truth when requests pass through non-MCP-aware proxies, and what that means for real-world deployments.
Leave with a practical understanding of the updated MCP Specification and the knowledge you need to adopt it with confidence in production.
Speakers
Christian Posta
Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Global Field CTO at Solo.io supporting customers and end users in their adoption of cloud-native technologies. He is an author for Manning and O’Reilly publications, open source contributor, blogger and sought after speaker on Envoy Proxy and Kubernetes technologies. Prior to Solo.io, Chrisitian was a Chief Architect at Red Hat, FuseSource and held engineering positions at organizations like Wells Fargo, Apollo Group, Intel.
Lin Sun
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, contributing full-time to the open-source community. She serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), is a CNCF Ambassador, and is a maintainer for Istio, kgateway, and kagent. An international speaker at tech conferences, Lin frequently blogs about gateways, service meshes, cloud-native connectivity, AI agents, and MCP. She is the author of "Sidecar-less Istio Explained", is currently writing "AI Agents in Kubernetes", and holds more than 200 patents.
