Scaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless Updates
Scaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless Updates Originally published on Google Developers Blog - August 5, 2026, co-authored with Kurtis Van Gent.
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) spec removes protocol-level sessions in favor of a stateless core. Every tool call is now self-describing, which unlocks seamless horizontal scaling and lets tool servers run on standard HTTP routing infrastructure — no more sticky sessions, no more Redis clusters just to remember which pod holds a session.
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