--- title: Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare | daily.dev description: Cloudflare VP of Product Rita Kozlov and Senior Director of Engineering Steve Faulkner discuss the acquisition of VoidZero (the company behind Vite),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rita-kozlov-and-steve-faulkner---cloudflare-obyebdnuk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare VP of Product Rita Kozlov and Senior Director of Engineering Steve Faulkner discuss the acquisition of VoidZero (the company behind Vite),... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rita-kozlov-and-steve-faulkner---cloudflare-obyebdnuk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/obYEbDnUK.png og:image:alt: Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rita Kozlov and Steve Faulkner - Cloudflare **[devtools-fm](https://daily.dev/sources/devtoolsfm)** · 52 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare VP of Product Rita Kozlov and Senior Director of Engineering Steve Faulkner discuss the acquisition of VoidZero (the company behind Vite), Cloudflare's evolving developer platform strategy, and the AI/agent ecosystem. Key topics include why Cloudflare acquired Vite and its commitment to keeping it MIT-licensed and community-driven, how primitives like Workers and Durable Objects have become foundational for AI agent workloads, the MCP server deployment story, the V-Next project and its use in OpenAI Codex sites, Cloudflare's infrastructure evolution as memory-intensive workloads grow, and the company's philosophy around free tiers, open source sponsorship vs. acquisition, and building for an agentic future. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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