marvin-steinke/nuclio_fusionizer

The project addresses 'function fusion,' a known optimization strategy in serverless computing to mitigate cold starts and inter-function communication latency. However, with only 4 stars and no activity for over 800 days, it is functionally a dead project or a personal experiment. The defensibility is minimal because the logic for bundling Python scripts into a single Nuclio container is relatively straightforward for any platform engineer. While frontier labs like OpenAI are unlikely to target the niche Nuclio ecosystem, the project faces high platform domination risk from Iguazio (the creators of Nuclio/MLRun), who could natively implement function composition. Compared to robust orchestrators like AWS Step Functions or the composition capabilities in platforms like Knative, this project lacks the ecosystem and feature depth to be competitive.