

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast
Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza
Fragmented is an AI developer podcast for engineers who want to go beyond vibe coding and ship real software.
We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with AI tools. No hype. No "I shipped a SaaS in a weekend" stories. Just tactics that work.
Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza โ software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products.
From vibe coding to software engineering โ one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.
We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with AI tools. No hype. No "I shipped a SaaS in a weekend" stories. Just tactics that work.
Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza โ software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products.
From vibe coding to software engineering โ one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Feb 24, 2020 โข 33min
190: The Privacy of ***********
In this episode, Donn and KG talk about the post Tim Bray recently wrote - Why Google did Android. They then touch on Chrome becoming a monopoly and tips on what folks can do to be a little more privacy conscious on the web.
Shownotes
Why Google did Android
KG privacy notes 2019 -> 2020
DuckDuck Bang syntax
Google Chromium and Ad-blocking
Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Google saying it isn't killing Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree
Misc
New Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium
Download Firefox
Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on + Temporary Containers for the privacy conscious.
Follow up from a previous episode:
Svelte : framework that spawned from New York Times. Thanks Midhun.
Contact
@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal or blog.kaush.co

Feb 17, 2020 โข 31min
189: The 2038 Problem
We've all heard of the Y2K problem, but there's also a similar coming up this 2038 for us programmers. In this episode we dive into the 2038 problem (... after of course talking about our opinions on new year resolutions).
Get 1% better every day folks... Listen here:
Shownotes
KG's 2020 New Year Resolution blog post
The Year 2000 problem
The Year 2038 problem
The Leap Year as Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Contact
@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal or blog.kaush.co

Feb 3, 2020 โข 1h 4min
188: Containerized applications with Docker
Shownotes
In this episode KG and Donn talk about KG's recent jaunt with Docker. In the attempt to setup continuous deployment for his blog, KG explains his simple requirement and how it lands up requiring some basic Docker. Donn then closes it out with some interesting in-depth knowledge on how to use Docker
Personal website hosting
Donn Felker
Kaushik's website
html-proofer
Wordpress
jekyll static website blogging
Domain checking services
Domainr
Lead Domain Search
Docker
Docker Hub
Circle CI : dockerfile wizard
KG's ruby-node docker container
Docker Compose
RabbitMq
Kubernetes : K8s
Udemy course: Docker & Kubernetes - The complete guide
Vue Js
Dockerizing a Node.JS Server
Contact
@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Jan 21, 2020 โข 1h 5min
187: Coroutines with Manuel Vivo & Sean McQuillan
It finally happens! KG and Donn talk about Coroutines with two experts at Google Manuel & Sean. We've waited quite sometime on Fragmented to discuss this topic. We wanted to make sure Coroutines was mature enough to be compared with the contenders. Listen to find out more!
Resources
Chris Banes - Suspending over Views Animations & CoRoutines
KotlinConf 2018: Exploring coRoutines in Kotlin
Coroutines Guide
Coroutines test library
Codelab: Kotlin Coroutines
Codelab: Kotlin Advanced Coroutines
Testing Coroutines Talk
Cancellation and Exceptions in Coroutines Talk
Seanโs Coroutines blog series
Manuel's blog post about Flow in the Android Developer Summit app
Contact
Sean McQuillan @objcode
Manuel Vivo @objcode
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Jan 6, 2020 โข 11min
186: Announcement 2020
In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about some changes coming down the pipe for the podcast and what it means in the long run.
Want to know what the changes are? Well, you're going to have to listen to the show... click play and listen away.
Once again, thank you all for joining us on this journey, it's been a fun and wild one.
Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Dec 16, 2019 โข 58min
185: Year End Decompress
In this decompress episode, Donn and KG talk about how their 2019 went. It goes from Dagger talk to Kotlin talk to Kotlin Conf talk. Give it a listen and enjoy!
Sponsors ๐
Square
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Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Dec 2, 2019 โข 23min
184: Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps?
In this episode, Kaushik tries to talk through this question.
Thanks to friends of the show Jeroen, Yigit and a bunch of others who ran through some ideas on this one.
Application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks
Android X Lifecycle Component
Ep 16: Favor composition over inheritance
Sponsors ๐
Square
Square has SDKs and APIs to make payments and run a business. Even better, Square has a new YouTube channel for developers! Check out Square's new YouTube Channel for Developers at youtube.com/squaredev and let them know you heard about it from us.
Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Nov 25, 2019 โข 20min
183: The Testing Paradox
How do you know what to test when you don't even know how to write the code that you need to test? This is a paradox that many developers find themselves in daily.
In this episode Donn talks about his strategy for dealing with unknowns in programming, namely around testing and how to figure out how to write tests for new code that might be difficult, unfamiliar or even legacy code.
Links
Ron Jefferies Tweet
Luxman Tweet
Donn Tweet
What is a Spike?
Sponsors ๐
Square
Square has SDKs and APIs to make payments and run a business. Even better, Square has a new YouTube channel for developers! Check out Square's new YouTube Channel for Developers at youtube.com/squaredev and let them know you heard about it from us.
Flatiron School
Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/fragmented in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or online and go back to school with Flatiron School! flatironschool.com/fragmented!
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See you in class!
Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Nov 18, 2019 โข 28min
182: Where do I put DB objects in a modularized Android app?
App Modularization has plenty of benefits and a lot of Android devs today are starting to modularize their android app.
A common problem though that most folks will start to run into is - how do you manage your database objects in these modules? do you create a single module with all your database dependencies (modularize by layer), do you do the right thing and modularize by feature so each module has it's own database file etc.?
In this episode Kaushik grapples with that question and tries to come up with an answer.
Shownotes
Modularization (KG's favorite resources)
Google IO 19 : Build a modular Android app architecture
Jeroen Mols's posts : Modularization - Why you should care
Joe Birch's posts : Modularizing Android Appications
Ep 117 : Multi Module Builds in Gradle
Karan Trehan's post : Writing a modular project on Android
Sponsors ๐
Vettery
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Flatiron School
Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/fragmented in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or online and go back to school with Flatiron School! flatironschool.com/fragmented!
Change careers with confidence with 1:1 support from our dedicated Career Coaches and a money-back guarantee. Complete details at flatironschool.com/terms.
See you in class!
Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

Nov 13, 2019 โข 22min
181: In Functional Programming how to do IO and database operations
In the world of Functional programming where pure functions don't encourage side-effects, how does on actually do any IO?
So in this brave new world where everyone is adopting more FP principles, do we just stop doing database operations? Listen to this episode to find out.
Functional Programming basics
Ep 83 : Learning the basics of functional programing with Anup Cowkur
Ep 120 : Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team
Ep 121 : Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team (Part 2)
Unidirectional State Flow
Ep 148 and Ep 151
KG's speakerdeck slide
KG's Movie search apps Android app + iOS app
Resources for FP/IO contention
StackOverflow Q&A
Flying Frog Blog: Functional programming and databases
Sponsors ๐
Flatiron School
Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/fragmented in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or online and go back to school with Flatiron School! flatironschool.com/fragmented!
Change careers with confidence with 1:1 support from our dedicated Career Coaches and a money-back guarantee. Complete details at flatironschool.com/terms.
See you in class!
Vettery
Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that is changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today.
Listeners of Fragmented get a $300 bonus if you accept a job through Vettery! Sign up at vettery.com/fragmented
Contact
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)


