DPDK Summit North America 2019, Mountain View

DPDK has its roots as a toolkit for developing Packet Processing appliances, where realizing packet processing performance is traditionally the highest priority. Since then it has grown into the new usage models of Network Function Virtualization and Cloud, where there is now the competing demands to continue the pace of innovation and also provide ABI Stability, Seamless Upgrades, Long Term Support, and OS Packaging as primary means of distribution.

ABI Stability will help bring these numerous benefits listed above and possibly more, however it will mean changes to the often permissive culture that has existed around ABI changes in the past. This presentation will dig into what these changes will mean for end consumer of DPDK; Network Operators and Telecom Equipment Manufactures, and how it will ultimately be a positive change for the DPDK User Experience.