API Design · Junior · Question 27 of 75

Why should list endpoints be paginated?

1Pagination is only for SEO
2HTTP limits responses to 100 items
✓Correct answer: Returning all items at once gets slow and memory-hungry as data grows, for both server and client

Explanation

Set a default and a maximum page size so one request can't ask for millions of rows.

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