These changes address the following warning showing up on `go get`
operations:
go: module github.com/golang/protobuf is deprecated: Use the
"google.golang.org/protobuf" module instead.
All changes are made using the recommendations in the per-function
deprecation notices from the docs at
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes
internal/pkg
This folder contains packages that are not specific to this application. These packages could theoretically be extracted into standalone public packages if they provide utility.