Stabilize cursor pagination contract
Medium APIs arena: cursor design, stable ordering, and backward compatibility
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A mobile client drops items when new records arrive during pagination. You are working inside an API platform team, and the arena only clears when the result is safe, deterministic, and explainable.
Learn to apply cursor design, stable ordering, and backward compatibility in an API platform team while explaining the invariant, safety constraints, and hidden edge cases.
- Demonstrates cursor design, stable ordering, and backward compatibility
- Handles the visible sample and hidden edge cases
- Keeps output deterministic and explainable
- Avoids unsafe dynamic execution
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