Align Your Team on Building MCP Servers

Learn to make the case for MCP, address misconceptions, and identify the use cases that will benefit most.

Beginner

2 lessons

Approx. 17 min

Instructors

Carlisia Campos

MCP Technical Strategist

Carlisia Campos is a senior software engineer specializing in Go, cloud-native systems, AI (LLM/MCP) integration, and open source.

Beginner

2 lessons

Approx. 17 min

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What you’ll learn

This course has two halves. The first half includes strategies for aligning your internal team, and making the case for building an MCP server. The second half offers a practical guide for determining whether an MCP server is the right solution for your specific use case. You’ll finish this course with a simple, clear way of aligning your team around the investment to build an MCP server.

Lessons

Lesson 1

The Strategic Case for Building MCP Servers

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents significant architectural challenges for engineers. As we build integrations that AI systems consume, ensuring reliable and secure access to external systems (databases, APIs, and third-party services) is a primary concern. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) addresses these challenges by providing a standardized, composable, and secure framework …

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Lesson 2

The Practical Guide to MCP Server Adoption

This framework helps you figure out whether MCP servers are right for your specific use case by systematically checking eight critical constraint categories. Each constraint gets scored, and the combined assessment guides your decision, a true compatibility test for you and MCP. The eight constraint categories What’s included in this framework Constraint assessment matrix For …

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