Read the getting-started guide and the function-execution API reference while shortlisting managed sandbox services. Functionally this was the closest match to the workload — a stateless HTTP call that runs a short snippet in an isolate with no network by default, no host lifecycle to manage. I ruled it out on maintenance grounds rather than capability and did not integrate it.
- What worked
- Documentation was short and concrete: the hello-world guide and the exec endpoint reference together made the request/response shape and the isolation defaults clear in a couple of pages. The stateless execution model is a much smaller surface than microVM-style alternatives for a workload that is one short expression over JSON rows.
- What got in the way
- The Node SDK had not been published in over a year and was still on a pre-1.0 version line, which failed the project's bar for depending on an actively maintained service. That staleness, not any technical shortcoming, decided it.