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This week’s system design refresher:
APIs Explained in 6 Minutes! (Youtube video)
12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025
How to Deploy Services
The System Design Topic Map
How Transformers Architecture Works?
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APIs Explained in 6 Minutes!
12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025
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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that simplifies how AI models, particularly LLMs, interact with external data sources, tools, and services. An MCP server acts as a bridge between these AI models and external tools. Here are the top MCP servers:
File System MCP Server
Allows the LLM to directly access the local file system to read, write, and create directories.GitHub MCP Server
Connects Claude to GitHub repos and allows file updates, code searching.Slack MCP Server
MCP Server for Slack API, enabling Claude to interact with Slack workspaces.Google Maps MCP Server
MCP Server for Google Maps API.Docker MCP Server
Integrate with Docker to manage containers, images, volumes, and networks.Brave MCP Server
Web and local search using Brave’s Search API.PostgreSQL MCP Server
An MCP server that enables LLM to inspect database schemas and execute read-only queries.Google Drive MCP Server
An MCP server that integrates with Google Drive to allow reading and searching over files.Redis MCP Server
MCP Server that provides access to Redis databases.Notion MCP Server
This project implements an MCP server for the Notion API.Stripe MCP Server
MCP Server to interact with the Stripe API.Perplexity MCP Server
An MCP Server that connects to Perplexity’s Sonar API for real-time search.
Over to you: Which other MCP Server will you add to the list?
Guide to AI Assisted Engineering (Sponsored)
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The zero-to-one guide for teams adopting AI coding assistants. This guide shares proven prompting techniques, the use cases that save the most time for developers, and leadership strategies for encouraging adoption. It’s designed to be something engineering leaders can distribute internally to help teams get started with integrating AI into their daily work.
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The 10 most time-saving use cases for AI coding tools
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Leadership strategies for encouraging AI use
How to Deploy Services
Deploying or upgrading services is risky. In this post, we explore risk mitigation strategies.
The diagram below illustrates the common ones.