Every application that is serious enough, that archives even a partial success, and especially if it archives big size, big scale, data or social reach, needs to show to the users – big, maybe even very big quantity of some data type. Doing this at once – at that point, dumping the huge amounts of information becomes impractical and even impossible. Many times, even the servers could get overwhelmed if the applications are not coded properly, let alone – some end users with desktop or even mobile device:
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