From Super Bowl to Olympics: How CyanView Powers the World's Biggest Broadcasts With Elixir

CyanView, a 9-person Belgian startup, uses Elixir to control 200+ cameras simultaneously during major live broadcasts including the Olympics, Super Bowl, NBA, and NFL games. Their system leverages Elixir's fault-tolerant architecture with MQTT + GenServer design to handle millions of real-time events, LiveView on embedded ARM hardware, and supervision trees that prevent camera failures from cascading across broadcasts. The company achieved zero broadcast failures even when controlling 100+ cameras from Paris during the Beijing Olympics, demonstrating how binary pattern matching enables rapid protocol reverse engineering for quick camera integration.