# Social Highlights

> Check out these social media highlights, and write your own!

## LinkedIn Posts:

!!! details "IBM's Armand Ruiz on MCP Gateway & ACP (LinkedIn)"
    **Author:** Analytics India Magazine | **Date:** June 10, 2025
    [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/analytics-india-magazine_armand-ruiz-ibms-vp-of-ai-platform-hails-activity-7338162493652946962-AF9J)

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        "Armand Ruiz, IBM's VP of AI Platform, hails the open-source MCP Gateway as 'a great step forward for those building agentic systems, orchestrating tools, or deploying complex GenAI apps.' ... With MCP Gateway streamlining tool orchestration and ACP redefining agent interactions, IBM is pushing to standardize AI infrastructure. As Ruiz emphasizes, this dual approach reduces deployment friction, empowering developers to scale GenAI applications efficiently."

!!! details "MCP Gateway Overview Post (LinkedIn)"
    **Author:** Armand Ruiz - VP of AI Platform @ IBM | **Date:** June 9, 2025 [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/armand-ruiz_introducing-mcp-gateway-a-powerful-fastapi-based-activity-7337795898988482561-G6S1)

    !!! quote
        "Introducing MCP Gateway, a powerful, FastAPI-based gateway for the Model Context Protocol, designed to unify and scale your AI toolchain... It does a lot... I think this is a great step forward for those building agentic systems, orchestrating tools, or deploying complex GenAI apps."

!!! details "MCP Gateway Launch Announcement (LinkedIn)"
    **Author:** Mihai Criveti - Distinguished Engineer, Agentic AI @ IBM | **Date:** June 5, 2025
    [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crivetimihai_ibm-opensource-mcp-activity-7335982903681581056-29Oc)

    !!! quote
        "Just open-sourced something I've been building – the MCP Gateway: turn any REST API into an MCP server, connect multiple MCP servers, combine tools into virtual servers, swap them on the fly, and adds observability and security – all in one container that can be deployed anywhere."

## Articles

!!! details "MCP Gateway: The Missing Proxy for AI Tools (Medium)"
    **Author:** Mihai Criveti - Distinguished Engineer, Agentic AI @ IBM | **Date:** June 8, 2025 | **6 min read**
    [Read on Medium](https://medium.com/@crivetimihai/mcp-gateway-the-missing-proxy-for-ai-tools-2b16d3b018d5)

    !!! quote
        "AI agents and tool integration are exciting — until you actually try to connect them. Different authentication systems (or none), fragmented documentation, and incompatible protocols quickly turn what should be simple integrations into debugging nightmares. MCP Gateway solves this."
