It depends on the implementation. For example, the post mentions using Elasticse...

dmlittle on Dec 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: API pagination design

It depends on the implementation. For example, the post mentions using Elasticsearch in production "which naturally supports this cursor stuff" but it has a max keep alive context duration of 24 hours[1] by default. This limit can be extended on a cluster level but it's unlikely they have it set to indefinite. Which means that their search context is likely only valid for 24 hours.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

dmitryminkovsky on Dec 27, 2020 [–]

Yep, that’s the case if you use the scroll parameter, but their search_after API is not stateful and that’s the sort of thing this article is about.