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On a project building an internal inventory system for ~200 operations users, I played both frontend (React) and backend (Node/Express) but treated them as separate teams. We started by designing the API first using OpenAPI/Swagger, agreeing on request/response shapes, error codes, and pagination patterns. That spec lived in the repo and auto‑generated both backend route stubs and TypeScript types for the frontend, which eliminated a lot of mismatch bugs and cut integration issues by roughly 60%. For versioning, we used URL-based versions (v1, v2) and a deprecation policy: log usage, announce, then keep old endpoints for at least one release cycle. Any breaking change required a new version and a migration note in the API docs. We also added contract tests in CI to ensure responses never changed shape accidentally. That let frontend and backend work in parallel with very few “this endpoint changed” surprises.
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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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