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2023-08-10 - Upgrade Python for websockets, apis and cloud functions
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Release
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*Status: Available*

*Type: DataOps*

*Date: 2023-08-10*

Problem
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We had been running with fixed versions of Jinja (2.11) and Google Spanner client due to a breaking change in the way the spanner client returns json payloads.

Solution
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It was a relatively simple update to the deployed code to handle the new payload from Spanner. The three python layers: cloud functions, apis, and websockets were all upgraded to the latest client libraries, tested, and re-deployed on python311 instances.

Leverage the Magic
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Because we leverage a standard pattern to query_spanner(query) => results, it was a simple matter to update one function in each layer that returns the results from spanner and re-deploy.

Magician Partner
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Upgrade all the python deployments to 3.11 before the legacy 3.7 functions go out of support in 2024 

Last Refreshed
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*Doc Refreshed: 2024-03-02*