Aaron Schlesinger

Adding a better error message for download mode

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**What is the problem I am trying to address?** There are a lot of configuration options and it's easy to forget something, misconfigure Athens, and get stuck when you make...

## What is the problem I am trying to address? We have a bunch of feature proposals that have been submitted via issues. We just enabled [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/gomods/athens/discussions), which is...

[WIP] Building a CLI for migrating between storage backends

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## What is the problem I am trying to address? It's hard to move modules from one storage backend to another. You have to understand the internals of how Athens...

## What is the problem I am trying to address? The [participating docs](https://docs.gomods.io/contributing/community/participating/) have two unrelated things in them: - Roles in the community - Ways to participate in the...

Add an endpoint that will output Athens configuration

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Athens has many configuration values and it's easy to get them mixed up. We are taking several measures to make...

Is it worth using testcontainers to set up our unit, integration or e2e tests?

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[Testcontainers](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go) is a convenience library to set up containers from Go code. We could use it to set up pre-requisite services like Redis, Mongo, Minio, etc...

In particular, this removes the line: ``` github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.4 h1:u7tSpNPPswAFymm8IehJhy4uJMlUuU/GmqSkvJ1InXA= ``` which was causing problems when you do a `go get`

Possibly crazy: support for non-SQL datastores?

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Pop is a rad package for CRUD on relational databases. Would there be any interest in expanding its scope to non-relational stores? I'm especially interested in MongoDB/[CosmosDB](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cosmos-db) and [Google Cloud...

End to end and stress tests

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We currently have mostly unit tests inside this repository, along with a few integration tests (like one for the interceptor coming in #206). I propose that we add more testing...

Use the external push gRPC protocol for external scaler => interceptor communication

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We currently use a simple HTTP/JSON protocol for the scaler to communicate with the interceptor. Because this protocol is just request/response, it has limitations on latency that can cause very...