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2667 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.
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3 questions in Pagination & Filtering.
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Pagination & Filtering intermediate
A list endpoint returning 2 million records times out on deep pages and returns 500 for validation failures. Fix both properly.
2 min answer paginationcursorserrorshttp-semantics -
Pagination & Filtering intermediate Multiple choice
An insurance API returns policy and claim lists that can be very large. Which pagination approach should be used, and what breaks with the obvious one?
2 min answer ackopaginationcursorsconsistency -
Pagination & Filtering intermediate
Your API issues opaque cursors for keyset pagination. Three weeks after a client stored one, you change the default sort from created_at to relevance_score. The client resumes with the old cursor. What happens, and what should happen?
2 min answer paginationcursorsversioningsilent failure