The Silent Performance Killer: OFFSET When building data-heavy B2B SaaS platforms at Smart Tech Devs—such as audit logs, infinite-scrolling activity feeds, or massive invoice tables—pagination is mandatory. The default approach in Laravel is using the paginate() method. Under the hood, this uses standard SQL LIMIT and OFFSET . For the first few pages, OFFSET works perfectly. But what happens when a user navigates to page 1,000 of your audit logs? The database query looks like this: SELECT * FROM audit_logs ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 15 OFFSET 15000 . To execute this, PostgreSQL must sequentially scan, retrieve, and discard the first 15,000 rows just to give you the 15 rows you actually requested. As your tables grow into the millions of rows, deep offset queries will bottleneck your CPU and crash your API. The Enterprise Solution: Cursor Pagination To architect platforms that handle infinite scale, we must abandon offset pagination and adopt Cursor Pagination (also known as Keyset Pagination).…