Self-hosting LLMs for HIPAA workloads: what actually works

I spent three months evaluating self-hosted LLM options for a healthcare client generating 6,000 clinical notes per day. Here's what I learned about Qwen, MLX, RunPod, and why the 'just use the API' crowd is often wrong.

MCP servers in production: lessons from six months

Model Context Protocol is powerful but the ecosystem is young. How I'm using MCP for HubSpot, Google Workspace, and custom data sources — and what broke along the way.