Q3 Contributions: What Landed in the Reference Implementation

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The community PRs that made it into the v3 architecture — and what's still open.

Q3 merge log for the reference fan-out implementation:

'feat: per-connection outbound queue' — the drop-tail fix for slow-client stalls (the most impactful PR this quarter)
'feat: symbol sharding' — implementation of RFC-001
'fix: heartbeat jitter' — randomized pong timeout to prevent reconnect storms
'docs: earnings-burst playbook' — the Micron-scenario load test doc

Open for Q4:

Adaptive shard rebalancing (dynamic hot-symbol detection)
QUIC transport experiment (head-of-line blocking elimination)

Contributors get credit in the release notes and a shoutout in the Stock Picks changelog — the reference implementation is real production code, not a toy.