[chrismccord]

You are right our default transports (WS/LongPoll) are not well suited for FPS requirements, but just to be clear transports are adapter based and you can implement your own today for your own esoteric protocol or serialization format. Outlined here: http://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Socket.Transport.html

The backend channel code remains the same and the transport takes care of the underlying communication details.