The original headline is: "Why Skip/Take gets slower on every page (and how keyset pagination fixes it)"

Short summary

SKIP/OFFSET pagination becomes O(n) slow on deep pages and breaks under concurrent inserts. Keyset (cursor-based) pagination solves both by using indexed WHERE clauses instead, trading random access for logarithmic performance. The author open-sourced SeekKit, a .NET library automating this pattern.

• •OFFSET pagination scales poorly: deep pages require scanning all prior rows
• •Keyset pagination uses cursor-based navigation with indexed WHERE clauses for O(log n) seeks
• •SeekKit (MIT-licensed .NET library) automates keyset pagination for EF Core 8+ and .NET Standard 2.1

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