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Why Your MCP Server Loses Session State Behind a Load Balancer

calendar_today October 8, 2026 person Eshaan Jain domain dzone

The Problem The Model Context Protocol has an initialize handshake. A client connects, the server hands back an Mcp-Session-Id header, and every request after that carries the same ID. That’s fine with one server.

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