API Pagination

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. The technique an API uses to split large result sets into smaller pages, commonly through page numbers, offsets, cursors, or tokens. Pagination is important for performance and consistency, especially when result sets are large or changing while clients are reading them.

    In plain English: Breaking large API result sets into smaller chunks that clients can request in sequence.

    Example: "They moved from offset-based API pagination to opaque cursors because inserts in the middle of the list kept causing duplicates and skips."

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