Tutorial on Joel Hanson

Convert Your Django DRF Project to MCP in 5 Minutes

joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:20:06 +0530

The Problem: When APIs Meet AI Assistants
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A few weeks ago, I was experimenting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for a Kafka integration project. The experience was eye-opening - being able to interact with complex systems through natural language felt like a glimpse into the future of development workflows.

From Celery to Restate: Rethinking Async Tasks in Django

joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0530

The Celery Question
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For years, when someone asked “How do I handle background tasks in Django?”, the answer was almost always “Use Celery”. And for good reason. Celery is mature, battle-tested, and has solved async task processing for countless Django applications. It has extensive documentation, a large ecosystem of plugins, and most Django developers have at least some experience with it.

Adding Durable Execution to Flask Applications with Restate

joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0530

The Challenge of Reliable Background Operations
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Building web applications with Flask is straightforward until you need to handle operations that can fail. Database operations timeout, external APIs become unavailable, and network connections drop. These failures are inevitable in production systems, yet handling them gracefully often requires significant engineering effort.

Introducing ContextLayer: Transform Any REST API into an MCP Server in Minutes

joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0530

The Problem: Connecting AI Assistants to Your APIs
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As AI assistants like Claude and VS Code Copilot become more powerful, developers are discovering a critical bottleneck: these AI tools can’t directly interact with our existing REST APIs.

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Convert Your Django DRF Project to MCP in 5 Minutes

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