[majewsky]

I'm maintaining about half a dozen microservices written in Go. In my experience, the Go community is very good about providing backwards compatibility.

In fact, I'm very strict about keeping on top of my dependencies because "spend a sprint to upgrade to the next version" is a process smell to me, no matter how seldomly it occurs. I have my Renovate bot set up to send PRs every Friday. Most of them are on "automerge on test success" at this point, then they soak in QA for the weekend and I send them to prod on Monday. The only trouble I can recall is with updating Kubernetes libs (let's not open that can of worms right now) and in some cases I have to manually intervene when libs upgrade from `interface{}` to using generics, but that's a refactoring that I gladly do.