Faraz Shah - Blog https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs Notes on building with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and AI-driven products. en Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Structuring FastAPI Services That Survive Past the Prototype https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/structuring-fastapi-services-that-survive-past-the-prototype FastAPI makes it trivially easy to ship a working endpoint in ten minutes. Keeping that codebase sane six months and thirty endpoints later takes a bit more structure. Faraz Shah Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/structuring-fastapi-services-that-survive-past-the-prototype FastAPI Python Project Structure That Scales Past a Single Script https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/python-project-structure-that-scales-past-a-single-script Most Python projects start as one file and stay that way far longer than they should. Notes on the project layout, dependency, and typing decisions that actually pay off as a codebase grows. Faraz Shah Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/python-project-structure-that-scales-past-a-single-script Python What Shipping AI Features in Production Actually Takes https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/what-shipping-ai-features-in-production-actually-takes Prompting a model in a playground and shipping an AI feature real users depend on are two different jobs. Notes on evals, latency, cost, and the failure modes that only show up in production. Faraz Shah Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/what-shipping-ai-features-in-production-actually-takes AI Building a Support Chatbot That Doesn't Feel Like One https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/building-a-support-chatbot-that-doesnt-feel-like-one Most chatbots fail on tone and scope, not technology. Lessons from building conversational assistants that actually resolve issues instead of frustrating the person typing. Faraz Shah Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/building-a-support-chatbot-that-doesnt-feel-like-one Chatbots Scoping an MVP Without Killing the Idea https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/scoping-an-mvp-without-killing-the-idea The line between a lean MVP and a broken one is thinner than most teams think. What actually belongs in a first release, and what's safe to cut without gutting the product's reason for existing. Faraz Shah Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/scoping-an-mvp-without-killing-the-idea Product Migrating a Vite + React Portfolio to Next.js 15 https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/migrating-a-vite-react-portfolio-to-nextjs-15 Notes from moving this exact site from Vite/CRA-style tooling to the Next.js App Router — feature folders, Tailwind v4, and the React Three Fiber gotchas along the way. Faraz Shah Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/migrating-a-vite-react-portfolio-to-nextjs-15 Next.js Building 3D Portfolios with React Three Fiber https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/building-3d-portfolios-with-react-three-fiber How the animated starfield background and interactive 3D scenes on this site are built with @react-three/fiber and drei, and what actually matters for performance. Faraz Shah Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/building-3d-portfolios-with-react-three-fiber React TypeScript Patterns I Actually Use in Production https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/typescript-patterns-i-actually-use A short list of TypeScript patterns that consistently pay off in real projects — discriminated unions for content blocks, typed motion variants, and narrow prop types over 'any'. Faraz Shah Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://faraz-shah.vercel.app/blogs/typescript-patterns-i-actually-use TypeScript