Been there, done that: remote DPDK development. It was for a owner-inserted trading box near a fin-DC (Finance data center). Has a DPDK NIC. But it did r

Been there, done that: remote DPDK development. It was for a owner-inserted trading box near a fin-DC (Finance data center). Has a DPDK NIC. But it did required your own upfront cost for all the components prior to walk-in. Learned a bit about data center-specific network protocols remotely. At the time, AMD was chosen over Intel due to not wanting CPU L2 cache being shared by two CPUs.