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Farming business logic out to a service you don’t control, asynchronously, and then paying by request is sketchy to me. On AWS, GCP, Azure I can run a server I configure, manage, and control. I can run as many as I need, automate provisioning and configuration, and still maintain control.

I could make the case that Javascript is a sketchy language for implementing business logic but that’s a matter of taste.

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Then luck you can (and I do) run Rust on cloudflare workers :-)

I would argue your case for cloudflare workers being "sketchy" only applies if you're confident you're better at "automate provisioning and configuration" than cloudflare.

In the end you have two choices: run your own hardware and networking, control everything; or, use a "cloud" infrastructure provider and accept you don't really have control.

Once you've given up fundamental control of the hardware networking and OS, I don't really see the advantage of managing provisioning and configuration. I definitely don't see a sensible argument that not doing so is "sketchy".

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