Cloud Fiasco: Treasure Hunt Engine Failure Crashes Critical Event Pipeline at 3 AM

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We had built the Treasure Hunt Engine to power in-game treasure hunts that reward players for exploring content. At 100 000 active players it felt fast. At 500 000 it started to stutter. The operator documentation told teams to set max_reindexing_concurrency = 2

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