Ben Morss is a Developer Advocate at DeepL — the German AI translation company — and over roughly ten days, he took Model Context Protocol on the road: 10 cities, 10 talks, 4 countries (US, Canada, France, Germany). Along the way, he went from "I didn't know what MCP was at all" to teaching packed rooms how to build a server from scratch. In this conversation with host Alex Saltkever at the MCP Dev Summit North America, he shares the one lesson that kept surprising everyone.

Cornelia Davis has spent three decades watching programming abstractions climb — from assembly to C to Java to the cloud. Now at Temporal (and author of the influential book Cloud Native Patterns), she argues that natural language is the most radical abstraction jump yet: the first one that isn't deterministic. Recorded at the MCP Dev Summit in New York, this conversation covers how durable execution becomes the safety net underneath probabilistic AI systems.

This is our final installment of a series that studies 20+ tools in the AI cognition landscape rated against organizational requirements. We present a tactical guide for choosing a memory foundation based on your specific needs for persistence, scale, knowledge base, and multimodal data.