# Setting Up MCP Servers: What, Why and How

DevFeed: [Setting Up MCP Servers: What, Why and How](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/setting-up-mcp-servers-what-why-and-how-17869.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/backend/setting-up-mcp-servers-what-why-and-how/>)

Author: Dipti Parmar

Published: 2025-07-30T11:15:28Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Backend Job: skill, salary and insights - Codemotion Magazine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/backend-job-skill-salary-and-insights-codemotion-magazine.md>)

Topics: [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Remote Procedure Call (RPC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rpc.md>)

Tags: [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [model-context-protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model-context-protocol.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers provide a standardized communication layer between AI agents and external resources such as databases, APIs, file systems, and cloud services. It outlines the limitations of bespoke integrations and introduces MCP clients, servers, and hosts within AI and multi-agent architectures.

## Source excerpt

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve rapidly, AI agents are no longer isolated entities answering isolated queries. Instead, they act as orchestrators in complex ecosystems, communicating with other tools, accessing multiple data sources, collaborating within multi-agent systems, and performing actions based on data-informed reasoning. At the heart of this transformation lies the Model Context Protocol... Read more The post Setting Up MCP Servers: What, Why and How appeared first on Codemotion Magazine.