A deep dive into MCP and its associated servers

A brief history of the protocol, why it can be hard to use, and how FastMCP came to be.

“Everybody only wants to dis-cuss me”

– Eminem, likely referring to eMCeePee servers

Since we covered the basics of MCP a few months ago, it feels like things have only gotten more chaotic. Adoption has been steadily growing, more and more companies seem to release MCP servers by the week, and (perhaps most importantly) both OpenAI and Google announced th…