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Joel Hanson
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Joel Hanson
Eight-plus years on production systems. At IBM Event Streams I work on Kafka Connect, schema registry migrations, and Kubernetes operators, and write about the failure modes that show up after deploy.

Problem: Most production APIs are REST. LLM assistants speak tools via MCP. Bridging them usually means hand-writing a server per API.

What it is: ContextLayer turns a REST API into an MCP server so assistants can call existing endpoints as tools — a hub for connectors rather than one-off wrappers.

Why it matters: Used in live MCP education sessions and demos; lowers the cost of giving agents real system access without rewriting backends.

Links: Live site · GitHub · Blog post

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