Pagination is not just necessary but the only way for many scenarios in production. A typical example is fetching sorted and transformed search results from a l

Pagination is not just necessary but the only way for many scenarios in production. A typical example is fetching sorted and transformed search results from a large catalog. Without pagination you get to terabytes. Not just that I/O would take ages and cpu usage skyrocket, it would make the system un-cacheable too. This is very common for large web services. Of course, it all depends on the details. On the other hand, many content websites often do pointless pagination (perhaps to increase page views for ads.)