API Design · Middle · Question 15 of 75

What's important for a cursor-paginated list's sort order?

1It must always be alphabetical
✓Correct answer: It must be deterministic, e.g. sort by createdAt then id as a tiebreaker, so the cursor marks an exact position
3It can be random

Explanation

Without a unique tiebreaker, items with equal timestamps can be skipped or repeated across pages.

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