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scrollaway on Dec 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: API pagination design

"let's allow users to DOS us in a single request if they want to" is not an acceptable design decision, I'm sure you are aware of that.

callesgg on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

Most services don’t handle ddos amounts of data, a few 1000 rows of data is fine.

Don’t design like you are Twitter if you are not. It is a waste of man hours. If I as a client need 10 000 rows of data that is what I will ask for either in one request or in a 100 consecutive.

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