QCon London 2026: Morgan Stanley Rethinks Its API Program for the MCP Era

Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they’re retooling the bank’s API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also demoed Google’s A2A protocol running alongside MCP.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon London 2026: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed how Spritely works to decentralize the Internet with new foundational technologies that put users in control.

By Michael Redlich

DMX or SPI for Pixel Based Lighting?

DMX and SPI Comparison: Which is More Suitable for Pixel-Based Lighting? In pixel-based lighting, DMX and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) protocols serve different needs and usage scenarios. Therefore, which protocol to choose depends on the scale of the application, distance requirements, and the desired lighting effects. What is the DMX Protocol? DMX (Digital Multiplex) allows […]
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What are DMX Addressing Methods?

Lighting and show equipment working with DMX protocol can be controlled via different DMX addresses. DMX addressing methods are as follows: 1️⃣ Manual Addressing – Traditional Method The dip switch method is mostly suitable for basic devices that use a small portion of the 512 channels. Each switch represents a binary value. For this reason, […]