With go 1.17 a change to the build flags was implemented:
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-gobuild.md
The formatter now automatically adds the forward-compatible build tag
format and the linter checks for them, so we need to include them in our
code.
This commit removes an assertion which is not needed because with etcd
we can safely create keys and values with the same key since they are
stored under different keys in the DB. This saves us one unnecessary Get
on every Put.
