clean up ci, use go 1.24, apply best practices for ci and general clean up

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[cpanato]

cc @afrittoli

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 56.25000% with 7 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 81.21%. Comparing base (d5d4efc) to head (1af9686).
Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
tools/generator.go	42.85%	4 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/bindings.go	33.33%	2 Missing ⚠️
pkg/api/types.go	80.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main     #107      +/-   ##
==========================================
- Coverage   82.94%   81.21%   -1.73%     
==========================================
  Files         101      101              
  Lines        8435     9145     +710     
==========================================
+ Hits         6996     7427     +431     
- Misses       1209     1488     +279     
  Partials      230      230              

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[afrittoli]

Looks good, thank you!!