Sketch Coding and the Rise of MCP in DevOps
DevOps.com, Friday, September 12th, 2025
At swampUP 2025, JFrog's Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog's culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role.
But as he emphasized, 'once a developer, always a developer.' He still codes daily, keeping a hands-on perspective that influences how JFrog builds and communicates its platforms.
That commitment to staying close to the keyboard led Arbel to create JFrog's first experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server as an open source project. Uploaded to GitHub almost as a side experiment, the project quickly gained traction - even attracting pull requests from NVIDIA and references from Cisco. For Arbel, it was validation that MCP represents a real turning point in how enterprises will connect APIs, AI models, and DevOps workflows.