Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Practical Guide

Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a practical, engineering-focused course designed to help developers build real, secure, and production-ready AI backends. After helping thousands of students overcome confusion around LLM integration, tool calling, and backend architecture, I created this course to solve the most common problems: “How do I build a reliable backend that LLMs can call safely?” “How do I choose between SSE, stdio, or streamable-http?” “How do I scale MCP into real applications with FastAPI, Auth0, and LangGraph?” “How do I structure my MCP tools, resources, prompts, and context?” In this course, I guide you step-by-step—from spinning up a minimal MCP server to deploying a fully secure, Dockerized system. Every lesson is hands-on, designed to remove complexity and give you a clear, repeatable workflow for building modern AI systems. If you're frustrated by vague tutorials and want a clear, concrete, engineering-level understanding of MCP, this course is built for you.