MCP in Production — The Enterprise Hardening Guide Nobody Wrote
MCP has 9,400+ servers but zero enterprise hardening guides. Auth, gateway, security, and observability for production MCP.
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MCP has 9,400+ servers but zero enterprise hardening guides. Auth, gateway, security, and observability for production MCP.
Portkey, LiteLLM, and Barbacane all ship an outbound AI gateway. Where they diverge is what else the gateway does: spec-first routing, MCP for the inbound direction, and composition with the rest of your API governance. An honest comparison for teams picking one.
Human developers route around inconsistent contracts, undocumented auth quirks, and drifted specs. Agents cannot. As agents become first-class API consumers, the dev-experience hygiene your team has been postponing turns into a production reliability problem.
TL;DR: LLM cost and latency are the two critical performance metrics that determine the viability of...