Why Your API Should Support Cursor Pagination

Episode notes

Lucas and Luna dive into cursor-based pagination: why offset pagination breaks at scale, how Stripe and Slack use opaque cursors to keep APIs fast and consistent, and how to design a cursor scheme that handles inserts, deletes, and billions of rows without surprising your users. They explain the mechanics, compare it to keyset pagination, share real-world gotchas, and offer a pragmatic rule of thumb for when to make the switch. #CursorPagination #APIDesign #PaginationPatterns #StripeAPIs #Slack #DeveloperExperience #BackendEngineering #DatabaseScaling #KeysetPagination #OpaqueCursors #APIArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #TechPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #APIs #Infrastructure #Engineering Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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