As a relatively junior developer, I have been told my some of my senior colleagues that I sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and so this may be another instance of that.

But it doesn't seem "trivial" to me how one gets the output of nmap into whatever database, data structure one chooses here. I know nmap can produce XML, presumably there is a csv format, but it would seem like the XML/CSV -> JSON conversion (following our intrepid Modern App Developer) would be an easier more maintainable way to go, versus XML -> to bit array (memory map file). Also, is managing the nmap or masscan and whatever other ancillary processes required to execute this plan equally as onerous in either paradigm? Finally, and this is likely controversial, this particular problem "feels" like its stacked against the Modern App Developer, given that it isn't trying to solve a problem most Modern Apps try to solve (or try to solve as an end rather than a means to an end)