#Pagination

2 articles tagged with "pagination"

🔢 OFFSET Pagination is a Lie: Switch to Cursors Before Your Table Eats You Alive

OFFSET-based pagination sounds innocent until your table hits a million rows and your database starts full-scanning just to skip the first 50,000. Here's why cursor-based pagination is the fix your API deserves.

Jun 16, 2026

6 min read

backendapi-design

Cursor-Based Pagination: Why OFFSET Is Slowly Killing Your API 🐌

OFFSET pagination feels intuitive until your database is scanning 500,000 rows to serve page 100. Cursor-based pagination fixes the performance cliff, ghost records, and duplicate entries in one shot.

May 18, 2026

6 min read