I think this is a natural and fine extension of the Netlify platform. They've had various "serverless functions" for a few years that's mostly been out of the w

I think this is a natural and fine extension of the Netlify platform. They've had various "serverless functions" for a few years that's mostly been out of the way if you don't need it. It fits within their goal of a 'heroku for frontend websites', for easily deploying sites.