Update go version & add verification/testing tools (#81)

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## What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

- [ ] Refactor
- [ ] Feature
- [ ] Bug Fix
- [x] Optimization
- [ ] Documentation Update

## Description

## Related Tickets & Documents

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## Added/updated tests?

- [ ] Yes
- [ ] No, and this is why: _please replace this line with details on why
tests
      have not been included_
- [ ] I need help with writing tests

## Run verifications and test

- [ ] `make verify` is passing
- [ ] `make test` is passing

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-0x434D53 <christoph.seufert@gmail.com>
-Abdülhamit Yilmaz <mr.yilmaz@gmx.de>
-Annonomus-Penguin <Annonomus-Penguin@users.noreply.github.com>
-Craig Peterson <cpeterson@stackoverflow.com>
-Cyril David <cyx@cyx.is>
-Dmitry Chestnykh <dmitry@codingrobots.com>
-Dominik Honnef <dominikh@fork-bomb.org>
-Google LLC (https://opensource.google.com/)
-John Downey <john@jtdowney.com>
-Kamil Kisiel <kamil@kamilkisiel.net>
-Keunwoo Lee <keunwoo@flux.io>
-Mahmud Ridwan <m@hjr265.me>
-Matt Silverlock <matt@eatsleeprepeat.net>
-rodrigo moraes <rodrigo.moraes@gmail.com>
-s7v7nislands <s7v7nislands@gmail.com>
-Wesley Bitter <github@wessie.info>