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Building and deploying remote MCP servers

MCP has quickly become the standard for connecting AI agents to real-world tools and services. But until recently, MCP was limited to local development. This talk covers the shift from local to remote MCP servers, including the technical challenges of deploying them at scale, like handling authentication, transport, and authorization. I’ll talk through the evolution of the MCP standard (changes across transport method and auth), key lessons and best practices Cloudflare has learned from building and deploying remote MCP servers. I can also include a live demo to show how to deploy a remote MCP server and talk through some of the exciting developments that will be coming to MCP.

Dina Kozlov has been a Product Manager at Cloudflare for over six years working on everything from DNS and SSL/TLS to Cloudflare for SaaS. These days, she’s focused on Workers for Platforms and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), helping developers build secure and scalable applications that can be extended to the AI agent world.

Fun fact: In her free time, Dina enjoys hiking. She has completed the four-day trek to Machu Picchu and hopes to do a long-distance hike in Patagonia this year.

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