Stop Using OFFSET for Pagination: Why Keyset Cursors Scale and LIMIT/OFFSET Doesn't

--- title : " Stop Using OFFSET for Pagination — It Won't Scale" published : true description : " LIMIT/OFFSET pagination degrades linearly with dataset size. Let me walk you through keyset cursor pagination for consistent O(1) performance at any page depth." tags : postgresql, api, architecture, performance canonical_url : https://blog.mvpfactory.co/stop-using-offset-for-pagination --- ## What We're Building By the end of this tutorial, you'll understand exactly why your paginated queries slow