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For a critical web service I prefer progressive rollout: build immutable containers, run them in Kubernetes with a service mesh (Istio) for traffic control, and use canary releases with automated health checks. Deploy new pods to a canary subset (5–10%), run synthetic and real-user canary tests for 10–15 minutes, then ramp to 50% and finally 100%. Rollback is automated: if latency or error-rate SLOs worsen by >2x or health checks fail, traffic shifts back instantly via mesh routing and the new pods are torn down. I also run pre-deploy integration and DB migration dry-runs in staging and use feature flags for non-backward-compatible changes. This approach kept a recent e-commerce service at 99.995% availability and reduced rollback time to under 3 minutes.
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Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
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