Name: MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate & Boteng Yao, Google
Start: 2026-04-02T17:30:00-0400
End: 2026-04-02T17:55:00-0400

April 2-3, 2026
New York, NY
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MCP Traffic Handling at Scale: Stateless Design, Proxies, and the Road Ahead - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate & Boteng Yao, Google

Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT

Empire Complex (7th Floor)

As MCP adoption grows, teams are facing a new set of challenges: session management across fleets, policy enforcement for agents and users, and operating MCP traffic at scale.

We’ll explore how proxies currently handle stateful MCP sessions, how stateless designs dramatically simplify scaling and operations, and how proxies like Envoy can enforce authorization, tool safety, and policy without becoming bottlenecks. The discussion will also look ahead to emerging MCP proposals, including stateless transports, async tasks, and server discovery, and why alignment between protocol evolution and proxy implementations matters for the ecosystem.

Attendees will leave with concrete architectural insights, practical lessons learned, and a clearer picture of where MCP traffic handling is headed and how to build for it now.

Speakers

Boteng Yao

Software Engineer, Google

Boteng is a Senior Envoy Maintainer and Software Engineer at Google, working on Envoy for various products with an emphasis on data plane, reliability, and security.

Erica Hughberg

Envoy AI Gateway Maintainer, Tetrate

Erica Hughberg is a technical leader, software engineer, and community advocate passionate about helping engineering teams develop scalable, secure, and user-focused application platforms. As a maintainer of Envoy AI Gateway, she concentrates on features that enable organizations... Read More →

Thursday April 2, 2026 5:30pm - 5:55pm EDT
Empire Complex (7th Floor)

Security and Operations

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

MCP Dev Summit North America

Boteng Yao

Erica Hughberg

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