I did the same for a long time, because it was obvously marketing BS, but when I looked into it a bit I realised that it was actually quite useful to have "prog

I did the same for a long time, because it was obvously marketing BS, but when I looked into it a bit I realised that it was actually quite useful to have "programmable HTTP endpoints" og "Chron jobs in the cloud" where you don't have to worry about the details of running them. If they only run occasionally, they can be quite cheap too. And since the major cloud providers have something like that, your are no more hostage with these than you are with any other cloud stuff.