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Most recently, I containerized a React/Node/Postgres app and deployed it on AWS EKS. We used a multi-stage Docker build for the Node API and a separate image for the React app, which we served behind an Nginx ingress. Kubernetes handled scaling; we set HPA to scale from 3 to 10 pods based on CPU and request latency, which let us handle traffic spikes of about 4x without downtime. For config, we kept non-sensitive settings in ConfigMaps and all secrets (DB creds, JWT keys, third‑party API keys) in AWS Secrets Manager, mounted into pods as environment variables via a small sidecar. CI/CD was GitHub Actions pushing images to ECR, then applying Helm charts per environment (dev/stage/prod). For monitoring, we used Prometheus + Grafana for app metrics and AWS CloudWatch for logs and alerts. After tuning thresholds and dashboards, we cut our mean time to detect issues from about 45 minutes to under 10.
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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.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
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