The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models,

and it has quickly become an important standard in agenic AI.

Fast MCP is an open-source project stewarded by the team at Prefect, which is an orchestration platform for AI and data workflows. The Fast MCP

Project builds on MCP to provide high-level ergonomic abstractions for Python developers to rapidly

build and deploy MCP servers and applications. Jeremiah Loewan is the founder and CEO of Prefect,

and Adam Ozum is the VP of Product at the company.

In this episode, Jeremiah and Adam joined Gregor Van to discuss the origin story of Fast MCP,

the three pillars of the framework, the architectural decisions behind Fast MCP 3.0, and much more.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously

been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies.

He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at van.hk or on LinkedIn.

Hello and welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Today we have two guests, which is always exciting. So today we've got Jeremiah Lowen and Adam Azam. Thank you for joining us, guys. Thank you so much for having us.

Yeah. So we're here to talk all things fast MCP, which I'm sure a lot of our listener base know about at least, but maybe a good chunk have used as well.

So we're going to get into where it's come from, what it's all about.

As usual, we do like to just hear the backstories of who we're talking to.

So you guys can fight amongst yourselves who wants to go first.

But yeah, where did you both come from in terms of careers and getting to, I guess, founding SMCP? Sure. This is Jeremiah. I spent most of

my career actually in by side finance in some risk or technology or applied statistics or machine

learning kind of field. Data scientists is probably the best career heading for what I was doing

there. And as a result, I became obsessed with building tools for people, tools for my colleagues,

tools for folks across the firm, different objectives, whatever it was. I just became obsessed

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