Dora Noda
Software Engineer
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MCP Just Passed 22,000 Servers. Almost None of Them Can Deploy Anything.
MCP has 22,000+ servers and 97M monthly downloads, but almost all of them are read-only lookups. Here's what idempotent deploys, rollback, and audit logging actually require from the ones that aren't.
MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete
MCP's biggest spec rewrite since launch went final on July 28, 2026, killing the session model a deploy/rollback MCP server used to need. A concrete before/after of what infrastructure gets deleted and what still has to run.
MCP's Stateless Core Just Shipped: What a Deploy-From-Chat MCP Server Gets to Delete
MCP dropped protocol-level sessions on July 28, 2026 — deleting the sticky routing and shared session store a self-hosted deploy/rollback MCP server used to need, and adding a formal lifecycle policy worth pinning to.
MCP's Tasks Extension Kills the Deploy-and-Poll Hack — But Idempotency Is Still Your Job
MCP's new Tasks extension finally standardizes the poll-for-status hack every deploy MCP server reinvents — but idempotency, cancellation, and state ownership are gaps the spec leaves for the platform to close itself.
The Mexico Breach Wasn't a Jailbreak. It Was a File Claude Reloaded on Every Run
A single attacker jailbroke Claude Code once, then breached nine Mexican government agencies across 34 sessions without ever repeating the jailbreak — because Claude wrote its own jailbroken instructions into a file it auto-loads every run. Here's the exact mechanism, and what it means for any agent-operated deploy pipeline that trusts persisted state.
Nutanix Ships NKP Metal: A Hyperconverged Giant Bets on Bare-Metal Kubernetes
Nutanix, a $2.8B-revenue HCI vendor built on its own hypervisor, just shipped bare-metal Kubernetes as a flagship product. Here's what NKP Metal actually costs, what it doesn't replace, and why it's independent validation for the Cluster-API thesis.
OpenAI Adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills Format in 48 Hours — What That Means for Your Deploy Runbooks
OpenAI adopted Anthropic's Agent Skills packaging format within 48 hours of its release, not just its MCP protocol. Here's what that convergence changes about writing a portable runbook Skill instead of a bespoke one.
AMD SEV-SNP Comes to Bare Metal: What Hardware Memory Encryption Buys a Multi-Tenant Fleet That Namespaces Never Could
OVHcloud's Scale 2026 bare metal and AWS Dedicated Hosts both shipped AMD SEV-SNP in 2026, at very different prices. Here's what hardware memory encryption actually closes that container namespaces can't, what it costs in dollars and throughput, and who genuinely needs it.
The 2026 'PaaS-First' Reversal: What Hacker News Gets Wrong About Owning Your Kubernetes Cluster
Hacker News sentiment flipped from 'you don't need Kubernetes' in 2024 to pitching Kubernetes-without-a-platform-team products in 2026 — but the PaaS-first argument conflates hand-operated Kubernetes with vendor lock-in PaaS, missing the option that actually removes the toil: Cluster API-based ownership.