FFerinferztyle.me·5h ago · 18 min readBuild an MCP Server in Go (Part 3): How IRSA and EKS Pod Identity Actually WorkEverything the MCP server could check through Part 2 lives inside the cluster. But "my pod can't reach S3" is very often not a Kubernetes problem at all, it's a workload identity problem, and that ide00
DODaniel Oliveirainequibles.hashnode.dev·7h ago · 8 min readBest MCP server for stock market data in 2026: I scored 8 on filings, congress trades and live quotesEvery "best financial data API" list ranks price feeds, and price feeds answer almost none of the questions a research agent actually gets asked. "Did anyone in Congress trade this before the guidance00
RYRavindra Yadavinrvindra.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 9 min readMCP : Model Context ProtocolMeaning : Model - Model here refers to the LLM models like GPT, Gemini, Claude etc. Context - Context means the information given to the model that it can use to understand and perform the given task.00
Ddebbieshapiroinlabyrinthanalyticsconsulting.hashnode.dev·16h ago · 7 min readWhich to Use: MCP, Function Calling, or PluginsWhen clients ask me how to connect an AI model to their existing data stack, the conversation almost always comes down to three patterns: Model Context Protocol (MCP), function calling, and plugins. T00
Jjaberadam2001insimplyexplained.hashnode.dev·17h ago · 9 min readHow AI Learned to Actually Do Things: Tool Calling and MCP ExplainedYour AI can check the weather, query your database, and book a meeting. Here's the strange truth underneath all of it: the AI can't actually do any of those things. It can only ask. Once you see the t00
Rryanbuildsinaidevstack.hashnode.dev·20h ago · 8 min readHow I Built a Polished App UI in 15 Minutes — Without Designing From ScratchBuilding a good app UI usually takes much longer than writing the actual code. You can have the backend ready, your API working, and your components planned out — and still spend hours trying to figur00
MUMuhammad Usmaninpractical-agent-workflows.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readHow I Used a Remote MCP Server to Research a Podcast Guest in ClaudePodcast interview research usually starts with a biography, a website and a few recent social posts. That is enough for background, but it does not show how a guest explains an idea when someone quest22K
VNVincenzo Nudoinvincenzonudo.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 8 min readSchema catalogs for AI assistants: the layer nobody wants to maintainThe schema catalog for an AI assistant is the artefact that answers the question "what does this database look like right now". Whether the database is Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server or Redshift, the sha00
LHLászló Hadházyincordata.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 35 min readThe catalog is the API — a governed mesh over MCPA domain engineer should be able to ask an assistant "which sensitivity level applies to a column that stores an EU IBAN?" and get the answer from the live LakeFormation policy rather than from a wiki00
NNorviqinnorviqdev.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 10 min readThe MCP server you approved is not the one running tomorrowA tool definition is an answer, not an artifact — and the protocol has a blessed way for a server to change its answer after you approved it. What that opens, what closes it, and where every defence I02CM
