Nishi Compare -- Frontier Radar: Containers and Orchestration

Where the 2025/26 research frontier is moving, and where Nishi should test, deepen, or research next.

How this works. The nishi researcher banked the current (2024-2026) frontier for this domain over sovereign TLS (keyless OpenAlex/arXiv). For each capability axis this radar measures frontier momentum = how often the frontier corpus mentions it, times our organ presence (probed on disk). Absent + hot = a research opportunity / where to test. Corpus measured: 2208245 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (containers.q + containers.axes) — zero domain-specific code.

Top research opportunities (the 2025/26 frontier is active here and Nishi has no organ yet):

Edge and IoT orchestration — frontier momentum 138
Syscall-filter security sandboxing — frontier momentum 94
Checkpoint restore live migration — frontier momentum 88
Serverless scale-to-zero cold start — frontier momentum 56
Image registry lazy distribution — frontier momentum 53
MicroVM lightweight virtualization — frontier momentum 45
WebAssembly container runtime — frontier momentum 5

Capability axis	Nishi organ	Frontier momentum (2025/26)	Signal
Edge and IoT orchestration	absent	138 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Multi-service orchestration planner	present	121 mentions	COVERED
Measured container benchmarking	present	106 mentions	COVERED
Energy and utilization efficiency	present	105 mentions	COVERED
Never-brick deploy and rollback	present	102 mentions	COVERED
Syscall-filter security sandboxing	absent	94 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Checkpoint restore live migration	absent	88 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Declarative spec and build	present	62 mentions	COVERED
Serverless scale-to-zero cold start	absent	56 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Image registry lazy distribution	absent	53 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Process isolation governance	present	48 mentions	COVERED
MicroVM lightweight virtualization	absent	45 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Health supervision and crash-loop guard	present	24 mentions	COVERED
Rootless least-privilege	present	6 mentions	COVERED
WebAssembly container runtime	absent	5 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
GPU accelerator workloads	present	4 mentions	COVERED

frontier momentum is a mechanical keyword count over real 2024-2026 works; our presence is probed on disk. A discovery signal, not a ranking of importance. Zero JS, zero trackers.

Frontier Radar — Containers and Orchestration