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I don't see the value in this service since markup conversion is built in to so many free libraries and services. What is the use case for this and who needs su

by foz 14y ago

I don't see the value in this service since markup conversion is built in to so many free libraries and services. What is the use case for this and who needs such as service?

richo 14y ago
+1 I wasn't aware that parsing markdown was "Expensive" Kramdown does it in pure ruby, and stupid fast as far as I can tell, and that's single threaded with the GIL.
- sinzone 14y ago
  There was a typo. The pricing has been updated.
  - richo 14y ago
    I meant expensive computationally.
    - nijiko 14y ago
      It's not the calls that are expensive, it's storage, caching, and the architecture that is expensive.
sinzone 14y ago
Of course, but that is part of the debate build vs buy. For every cloud API there is almost always an OSS that does the same thing. But you'll have to maintain it, scale it, etc..that's the beauty of cloud APIs. You buy, and leave the boring part to others.