MCP is mind-blowing. Here is a genius setup that will earn you a promotion with your manager. I have multiple data sources: data in S3, MySQL, and local files. Using Spice (an open-source project), I can co-locate all of that data behind a single SQL endpoint and augment it... using MCP. Before, accessing data was slow, and I had to make multiple requests to get anything. After using Spice, I can query the data much faster (since it's mirrored locally), and I don't have to worry about where the data is coming from. Spice acts as an MCP server, so I can connect to it from my IDE or the Claude Desktop app and have access to all the data. But even more cool than that: Spice also acts as an MCP client, so it can connect to other MCP servers. This is where things get really interesting! Watch the video. I'm querying multiple data sources from my IDE and using the Google Maps MCP server for driving directions.show more

This will give you 1,000 ideas. The Spice OSS repository is here: If you want to watch the video on YouTube, here is the link:

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Mind-blowing is an understatement. for everything you need

That looks pretty cool. How do you handle the auth to the data sources? Also curious - with your reach in the MCP space, any thoughts on pushing for richer UIs in MCP clients? The text-only experience feels limiting compared to what's possible with even basic HTML/images.

Awesome finding! My use case would be querying Slack and Confluence. Last week: I run into Kubernetes deployment issues. I solved it by checking Slack history, Confluence pages and ask colleages. Really painful process. This tool could help 🧐

I believe MCP like solutions will change everything in time

Brilliant example! I've been sleeping on MCPs thus far but time to wake up This abstracts away the programming layer, you don't see the SQL How do you trust the data to be accurate?

Actually it has nothing related to MCP, you could easily do it with a python script. MCP is just a communication protocol. What happens on software it exposes that matters. This is the reason the protocol is not useful at all. There are tools that already translate your OpenAPI to this new unuseful protocol.

This is amazing!!! Thanks a lot for sharing

Someone needs to build an MCP Server for Will it be me?

How do you update data on the tables? or it's live in runtime?

One SQL endpoint for everything? MCP + Spice just became my new favorite duo.

This is inane. MCPs are the next banger for AI. The usecase s for LLMs just got astronomical.

Very cool, thanks for sharing! It wasn't obvious to me why having the Spice MCP use the tool vs. having the the client use the tool is better?

Seems efficient; helps streamline data access.

Co-locating data via Spice? Smart. Next: audit workflows, track latency. Modular wins—APIs > patchwork. ROI climbs when data flows, not fights. Seen this pattern scale.

I see the integration to cursor. How would this work if you would expose it in the app itself?

Absolutely genius.

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it is easier interacting with a sql database to just write plain sql than to use an mcp

Is it standard way to create wrapper on top of multiple mcp servers ?

It sure is. We’re seeing unreal new use cases every week.

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Thank you ! Nice content.

And now do it in a critical business scenario at scale and in production in a non-verifiable domain. What’s the rate of syntactically invalid SQL queries and what’s the rate of syntactically valid but semantically wrong SQL queries? What’s the rate of verifiable reproducibility for a specific resultset given a series of identical queries? I am curios … #AI #MCP

This looks cool ... thanks for sharing!

Unfortunately from someone who built and hacked DBs for a long time, this is not the groundbreaking as it looks, you can do most of these things with a simple SQL query...

You can achieve the same results with some bash magic and clever local caching. If not better/faster. With less dependencies. So where is the mind blowing part? 🤔

Do you think MCP is only useful in a dev environment? Most MCP examples I’ve seen are through Cursor or IDEs. have also read a lot of your posts but trying to get an intuitive sense of why MCP is better than function calling. Are there resources you read that made it click?

so bullish on MCP, A2A and more protocols to come for the agentic era