DPDK is a fully open-source project that operates in userspace. It's a multi-vendor and multi-architecture project, and it aims at achieving high I/O performance and reaching high packet processing rates, which are some of the most important features in the networking arena. It was created by Intel in 2010 and moved to the Linux Foundation in April 2017. This move positioned it as one of the most dominant and most important open-source Linux projects. DPDK was created for the telecom/datacom infrastructure, but today, it's used almost everywhere, including the cloud, data centers, appliances, containers and more. In this article, I present a high-level overview of the project and discuss features that were released in DPDK 17.08 (August 2017).