Spaniard lost in Brittany, coder, speaker, dreamer and all-around geek.
Horacio is VP of DevRel at Clever Cloud. He is also the co-founder and leader of the FinistDevs and Rdv des Speakers communities.
Horacio loves web development in general and everything around Web Components and standards web in particular, but he also loves to discuss Kubernetes, AI and cloud in general.
Deep Dive (90min) - Estimated number of attendees at your session: 256 persons. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the connective tissue between Large Language Models and the tools, APIs, and data they rely on. But building a working MCP server is only the start. The real challenge comes in the design choices: generic vs domain-specific, open vs restricted, flexible vs safe.
In this 1.5-hour Deep Dive, we’ll go beyond the 101 level. Drawing from real-world projects, we’ll explore the patterns, pitfalls, and best practices that are emerging as MCP adoption accelerates. Through extended demos, architecture discussions, and practical examples, we’ll look at how different design decisions shape developer experience, performance, and security.
We’ll revisit lessons from the early days of REST APIs and see how they apply to MCP today—while recognizing that the stakes are higher now, since LLMs and agents are acting directly on our systems. By the end, you’ll have a clear mental framework to design smarter MCP servers, and a set of practical guidelines you can use immediately in your own projects.
