FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin

FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin

From Software Engineering Daily by softwareengineeringdaily.com

April 7, 2026 · 1h 7m

About this episode

This episode discusses the FastMCP project and its significance in the context of the Model Context Protocol for AI development.

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly become an important standard in agentic AI. FastMCP is an open source project stewarded by the team at Prefect, which is an orchestration platform for AI and data workflows. The FastMCP project builds on MCP to provide high-level, ergonomic abstractions for Python developers to rapidly build and deploy MCP servers and applications. Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of Prefect, and Adam Azzam is the VP of Product at the company. In this episode, Jeremiah and Adam join Gregor Vand to discuss the origin story of FastMCP, the three pillars of the framework, the architectural decisions behind FastMCP 3.0, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at vand.hk or on LinkedIn. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

People in this episode

Host: Gregor Vand

Guests: Adam Azzam, Jeremiah Lowin

Topics covered

  • Model Context Protocol
  • agentic AI
  • open source
  • Python development
  • AI workflows
  • FastMCP

Keywords

  • FastMCP
  • Model Context Protocol
  • AI
  • Python
  • open source
  • orchestration
  • data workflows

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Organizations: Prefect, FastMCP, softwareengineeringdaily.com

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