In this episode I talk with Aleksander Lisiecki. We talk his introduction to Erlang, non-standard use cases for Erlang and Elixir, Erlang and Elixir School, and more.Our Guest, Aleksander Lisiecki.@AlekLisiecki on Twitteraleklisi on GithubAleksander’s Email at Erlang SolutionsAnnouncementsElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/.:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal.Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date.Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About AleksanderLambda DaysErlangElixirHaskellSoftware background coming into UniversityJavaC++Taking a class on Ada and ErlangPiotr MatyasikAriane 5Getting an Internship in ErlangErlang SolutionsSchool of ErlangMichal SlaskiPeer StritzingerGRiSP boardsAleksander’s School of Erlang repos on GithubFall of 2020Fall of 2019April 2022Things appealing about ErlangTooling for inspecting and observing the systemKubernetesErlang ApplicationConcurrency and Parallelism in ErlangCommon Roadblocks to Understanding Erlang and ElixirProlog like syntaxToolingRebar3GradualizerGradientProcesses in the BEAMSpawnfestAleksander’s post on SpawnfestNeo4jOther interesting projects in Erlang and Elixir Aleksander has doneThe Sound of ErlangUndertoneDuncan McGreggor’s presentation on UndertoneRaspberry Pi Zero WBuilding a coal stove refill monitor applicationFirebaseMurphy’s LawAleksander’s upcoming talk at Lambda DaysLambda Days 2022Joanna WronaSlightly non-standard use cases for ErlangWeb ScrapingMonte Carlo SimulationsElixirConf EU 2022As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.