A year ago, remote MCP servers were largely experimental — alpha builds exposing a handful of tool operations. Today the ecosystem looks very different. Major SaaS and PaaS platforms are shipping first-party MCP servers at scale, with vendors like Datadog and PostHog publishing hundreds of tools in the span of a few months.
The core problem isn't just tool sprawl, it's that every vendor is solving connection management, authentication, and tool discovery slightly differently — and the patterns are diverging faster than the standards can settle. Enterprises consuming these servers inherit that fragmentation directly, and the operational and security implications are only beginning to surface.
This session offers a ground-level view of the current MCP landscape from the vantage point of a gateway operating between large first-party servers and their enterprise consumers. We’ll walk through the OAuth patterns now emerging in production, why previously promoted standards like Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) are being quietly walked back, and how teams are handling state, auth, and routing across inconsistent vendor implementations. The session is grounded in patterns observed across organizations building, consuming, and securing remote MCP servers at scale.
Speaker
Neil Mansilla
VP of Platform @Barndoor AI
Neil Mansilla leads platform strategy at Barndoor AI. Prior to Barndoor, Neil led Developer Experience at Atlassian, supporting the global ecosystem of developers and partners that build apps on the Atlassian platform. Before finding his passion for developer relations and partnerships, Neil worked as a software engineer across several industries, including e-commerce, real estate, and healthcare.
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