Disclosure: I work for AWS, but this is my personal opinion. We have lots of developers that write code that's similar to how ScyllaDB is built. Lots of DPDK.

Disclosure: I work for AWS, but this is my personal opinion. We have lots of developers that write code that's similar to how ScyllaDB is built. Lots of DPDK. There are many other practical reasons why a fork should never be the first choice when building a service that you have to sustain for customers basically forever. Especially if there's active, high velocity development going on.