Instead of directly calling the spawn and spawn_link functions, we have another option available to us as a part of the standard Elixir BEAM functions. We can instead use the functionality around calling tasks for our one-off processes instead of trying to call kernel-level functions to spawn things asynchronously. The task module in Elixir provides a couple of handy functions (and we'll dive into some of this functionality in greater detail when we start talking about supervisors as well), but we'll primarily be concerned with Task.async/1, Task.async/3, and Task.await/1.
Task.async/1 is very simple; it just takes in the function that you want it to run and executes it as if it were being executed via spawn. Let's ...
