kky-fury/gFaaS

gFaaS is an academic research project associated with the IEEE SANER 2024 conference. While it addresses a legitimate pain point in serverless computing—the rigid signature requirements and lack of polymorphism in standard FaaS offerings like AWS Lambda—it lacks any commercial or community traction. With only 2 stars and 0 forks over nearly three years, it serves primarily as a proof-of-concept for the paper's findings rather than a tool for production use. The defensibility is near-zero as the core value lies in the methodology described in the paper, which can be easily reimplemented by cloud providers or existing middleware projects like OpenFaaS or Knative. The platform domination risk is high because major cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, Google) control the underlying runtimes and are the natural entities to implement generic function handling if the demand from developers warrants it. Frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) have little interest in this infrastructure layer, keeping the frontier risk low. The project is effectively a static research artifact.