How API Pagination Almost Broke the Web

Episode 55 of The API Podcast: Lucas and Luna dive into the hidden pitfalls of API pagination — how a simple pattern like cursor-based pagination prevented a major social media platform from going down during a 2025 traffic surge. They walk through the difference between offset and cursor pagination, why the Twitter API's v1 pagination broke under load, and what developers can learn from GitHub's GraphQL node-based approach. Packed with concrete examples and real-world data: the talk covers latency benchmarks, the 'missing page' problem, and why REST APIs still use pagination more than GraphQL. If you've ever built an API endpoint that returns a list, this episode will save you from a production incident. #API #Pagination #CursorBasedPagination #OffsetPagination #RESTAPI #GraphQL #Backend #WebDevelopment #Tech #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheAPIPodcast #NodeBasedPagination #API #SocialMedia #TwitterAPI #GitHubAPI #Latency Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo