Alice Hayes

Alice Hayes

Data Strategy and Development Specialist

About

"After completing my Data Analyst Apprenticeship, I have found a passion and talent for Data Visualisation using Tableau. Despite this, I am proficient at end to end projects and guiding stakeholders of a variety of data literacy awareness through the journey to create outputs that meet the business need and educate it's users. I enjoy learning new software to diversify my skills and enjoy helping those who want to get into data. I am currently studying for a degree with honours in Data Science and cannot wait to add it to my toolkit"

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Are your backend services authenticated or just trusted by default?

most teams spend a lot of time thinking about user authentication. who can log in, how, with what credentials.

and then the services behind the scenes just... trust each other. because they're on the same network. because they're in the same VPC. because nobody questioned it when the architecture was first drawn up.

What’s the hardest part about building your MCP-Server?

We did our first launch of MCP-Builder.ai (a platform to build hosted MCP-Servers) a few months ago and since then learned so much from talking to users, getting our first paying customers and also listening to the ones we didn t close.

One thing became very clear from all those learnings:

Coding an MCP-Server is not the hardest part anymore. It s what comes afterwards.

Hosting it, keeping it versioned, making sure it stays online, debugging, monitoring what actually happens and adding proper security. Especially in bigger companies and enterprise setups, a basic MCP-Server is often not enough. Security, authentication, observability and securely connecting internal systems quickly become just as important as the MCP-Server itself.

We removed passwords from our signup flow entirely. Here's what actually changed

One of the teams using MonoCloud made a decision most founders are too nervous to make: they turned off passwords completely.

no fallback, no 'or create a password instead.' passkeys by default, magic link as the backup, done.

here's what actually changed after they did it.

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