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If you are thinking about starting a Seastar project, definitely check out SMF [0]. It's a highly optimized RPC framework that uses Seastar, and makes it easy to build high-performance servers and clients. Seastar itself is RPC agnostic, and this project has a great implementation of functionality most developers will eventually need.

[0]: https://github.com/smfrpc/smf

Yep! Talk to Kefu Chai at RedHat. He's using Seastar to rebuild Ceph. Here's his presentation from Scylla Summit 2018 back last October:

https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/redhat-on-rebuilding-the-...

Do you need to have a certain network card for DPDK to work? Can I just rent a random dedicated server, install DPDK and get userland networking?

Here's a list of DPDK supported NICs:

https://core.dpdk.org/supported/

I've also been interested in this project. Several years ago, I was toying with the idea of building a Kafka-compatible broker implementation with it. Although I didn't get very far, it's a very powerful and well-designed framework.

i have a prototype of that same idea working w/ seastar.