MCP Dev Summit North America

As MCP adoption grows, teams quickly discover that scaling from a single MCP server to a multi-server ecosystem introduces new architectural, operational, and governance challenges. Patterns that work for standalone MCP implementations often break down when MCP becomes a shared platform capability across multiple domains, teams, and clients.

In this talk, we share practical lessons from building and operating an MCP server ecosystem at infrastructure scale at Equinix. What began as a single MCP server evolved into multiple coordinated MCP servers spanning networking and infrastructure domains, each with distinct tools, lifecycles, and operational constraints.

Attendees will learn:
1. How MCP architecture changes when scaling from one server to an ecosystem
2. Design patterns to avoid tight coupling and fragmentation across MCP servers
3. Practical approaches to tool discovery, versioning, and backward compatibility
4. Operational lessons for reliability, rate limiting, and failure isolation
5. Governance best practices for ownership, change management, and ecosystem growth