AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026

Spotify’s workforce went from zero to near universal use of MCP servers in breakneck time. It was only possible due to the MCP gateway - custom code written in a weekend to support the urgent need to expose Spotify’s extensive internal API ecosystem to AI agents.

The MCP gateway rapidly became a victim of its own success; multiple teams were committing significant changes to the codebase, and domain ownership and on-call support for the gateway were somewhat uncertain. From a sustainability perspective, the MCP gateway was becoming a big risk.

In this talk you’ll learn how Spotify successfully rebased its highly custom MCP gateway use case onto OSS technologies, while retaining deep integration into Spotify’s infrastructure management plane, service discovery, and microservice ecosystem. Hear how kgateway, the Envoy proxy, kro, and the Gateway API were used to build the new MCP gateway, enabling it to be better sustained by the right teams contributing their specific expertise.