Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

This is pretty funny to see, because every financial firm interview process I've seen involves some variant of solving a bunch of stuff with min heaps.

Never before has a set of engineers been more primed to solve a problem

Linear scans break at scale. Partitioning by prefix and using pooled 1024-entry blocks is the right move to prevent 2 GB worst-case index bloat.