Weekly Digest 25 JUNE
The Dispatch Weekly: MCP momentum, lean infra, and the agent shakeout
MCP hardens into real infrastructure, AI coding moves onto the meter, and venture capital quietly abandons the wrapper layer.
4 min read AI & MCP 26 JUNE · 6 min read
MCP in 2026: the protocol grew up
Eighteen months of spec revisions turned a clever stdio hack into stateless, OAuth-aligned infrastructure you can actually put behind a load balancer.
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AI & MCP 23 JUNE
Shipping production MCP servers without the footguns
The MCP reference servers were never meant for production — here is what you actually have to build before a tool call can touch real data.
6 min read AI & MCP 19 JUNE
MCP vs raw tool-calling: when the protocol earns its keep
Both let a model act on the world — but one is a wire format and the other is an integration contract, and conflating them costs you.
6 min read AI & MCP 16 JUNE
The MCP servers worth your stdio
A working engineer's survey of the mid-2026 MCP server ecosystem — the seven that ship in the reference repo, the third-party ones that earned their keep, and how to tell maintained from abandoned.
6 min read AI & MCP 12 JUNE
Context engineering ate prompt engineering
The job stopped being how you phrase the request and became what you let into the window — and the token budget is now the real design surface.
6 min read Dev Infra 09 JUNE
The PaaS-on-a-VPS renaissance
A git-push deploy on a single A$9 box is back in fashion — not from nostalgia, but because the per-seat and bandwidth maths on managed platforms stopped adding up.
6 min read Dev Infra 05 JUNE
Git-push deploys for monorepos that don't fight you
Three apps in one repo, three independent deploys, and a CI bill that only charges for what actually changed — here's the wiring.
6 min read Dev Infra 02 JUNE
Observability without the bill shock
Traces, metrics, and logs for a small team — without a SaaS invoice that grows every time traffic does.
6 min read Dev Infra 29 MAY
Edge or origin? Where Australian devs should actually deploy
A decision framework for choosing Cloudflare's edge over a single ap-southeast-2 origin when your users are in Sydney, Perth, and everywhere between.
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