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Model Context Protocol for LLMs
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Model Context Protocol for LLMs

by Naveen Krishnan
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
10h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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MCP Performance Optimization

I always believe performance isn't just about speed; it's about making intelligence feel effortless.

I've optimized a lot of systems over the years, but optimizing AI systems? That's a different kind of challenge entirely. Traditional performance optimization is mostly about making things faster: reducing latency, increasing throughput, and minimizing resource usage. AI performance optimization is about all of that, plus making intelligence more effective, more responsive, and more… well, intelligent.

The first MCP system I had to optimize was running like molasses. Not because the individual components were slow; in fact, they were quite fast. The problem was that the AI was spending most of its time waiting. ...

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ISBN: 9781806662272