I mean, it's incredibly easy to deploy client apps separately from the server in a lot of ways To me, the only value I see for Edge compute is when some chunk

I mean, it's incredibly easy to deploy client apps separately from the server in a lot of ways To me, the only value I see for Edge compute is when some chunk of data requires processing going one way across the network, and that processing can be done entirely locally. I suppose what you describe with the meta tag qualifies in this case, otherwise I think serverless architecture looks like a pretty sweet deal for the cloud companies promoting it.