InfoQ - Microservices

Article: The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale

Kirill Sokolov — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT

What determines whether your app feels fast, ships often, and stays stable at scale is not the app itself. It is what sits behind it. This article is about that layer: what it does, why it exists, what it takes to design it correctly, and what happens when you try to migrate a live, high-traffic product onto it without a safety net.

By Kirill Sokolov

Uber Builds MCP Gateway to Govern Access to 800+ Servers and 5,000+ AI Agent Tools

Leela Kumili — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:53:00 GMT

Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access controls, sensitive data redaction, incremental tool discovery through Omni MCP, and response filtering.

By Leela Kumili