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Module 1: MCP architecture for production implementations
- Reviewing host, client, and server responsibilities from an implementation perspective
- Designing boundaries between MCP servers, AI applications, and downstream business systems
- Understanding capability discovery, requests, responses, notifications, and protocol metadata
- Choosing between one focused server and multiple domain specific MCP services
Module 2: Building maintainable MCP servers
- Structuring an MCP server using an official SDK and clear application layers
- Separating protocol handling from business logic and downstream integrations
- Managing configuration, dependencies, errors, and reusable service components
- Designing server capabilities so they remain understandable as the implementation grows
Module 3: Advanced tool design and schema handling
- Designing focused tools with clear names, descriptions, inputs, and structured outputs
- Creating input schemas that constrain model generated arguments appropriately
- Validating parameters and returning useful success and error information
- Distinguishing read operations, state changing actions, and sensitive operations
Module 4: Resources, prompts, and context architecture
- Designing resources for structured access to documents, records, and application data
- Using resource URIs and metadata to organize accessible information
- Creating reusable prompts for controlled and repeatable interaction patterns
- Deciding when a requirement belongs in a tool, resource, prompt, or application layer
Module 5: Local and remote transport architecture
- Implementing local MCP integrations with stdio
- Designing remote services with Streamable HTTP
- Understanding stateless request handling and implications for scalable server design
- Separating application state from transport state when workflows need continuity
Module 6: Building MCP clients and consuming capabilities
- Connecting clients to local and remote MCP servers
- Discovering tools, prompts, and resources programmatically
- Calling tools, reading resources, and processing structured responses
- Handling failures, retries, timeouts, and unavailable capabilities cleanly
Module 7: Integrating APIs, databases, and enterprise systems
- Wrapping existing APIs and services as focused MCP capabilities
- Connecting MCP servers to databases and internal business systems safely
- Transforming downstream responses into model friendly structured outputs
- Managing credentials, connection configuration, and downstream errors without leaking implementation details
Module 8: Authentication, authorization, and MCP security
- Protecting remote MCP servers with appropriate authentication mechanisms
- Validating tokens and applying authorization at server and capability level
- Applying least privilege to tools, data sources, and external system access
- Defending against unsafe parameters, unintended actions, sensitive data exposure, and excessive capability scope
Module 9: Multi step interactions and advanced protocol behavior
- Designing capabilities that require additional information or user confirmation
- Understanding modern multi round trip interaction patterns
- Managing explicit workflow handles when state must continue across calls
- Keeping multi step interactions predictable and auditable
Module 10: Testing and debugging MCP implementations
- Testing tools, resources, prompts, schemas, and transport behavior independently
- Creating predictable success, validation, authorization, and failure test cases
- Diagnosing protocol errors separately from downstream application errors
- Building integration tests for realistic client to server workflows
Module 11: Logging, tracing, and operational visibility
- Designing structured logs around requests, tools, downstream calls, and failures
- Correlating activity across MCP clients, servers, and external services
- Using tracing and operational metadata to investigate latency and reliability problems
- Defining useful metrics for availability, tool execution, errors, and performance
Module 12: Deployment, compatibility, and production readiness
- Packaging and deploying remote MCP servers behind controlled infrastructure
- Considering gateways, rate limits, routing, secrets, and environment specific configuration
- Managing protocol and SDK upgrades while maintaining client compatibility
- Building a practical production readiness checklist for security, testing, monitoring, ownership, and maintenance
