Exploring the Future of MCP Transports

When MCP first launched in November of 2024, quite a few of its users relied on local environments, connecting clients to servers over STDIO . As MCP became the go-to standard for LLM integrations, community needs evolved, leading to the build-out of infrastructure around remote servers. There’s now growing demand for distributed deployments that can operate at scale. The Streamable HTTP transport was a significant step forward, enabling remote MCP deployments and unlocking new use cases. However, as enterprise deployments scale to millions of daily requests, early adopters have encountered pr