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Re:App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime by iamgopal on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:12PM (#18233746)
Does context.background() works ?
Re:App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime by chrisbroadfoot on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:35PM (#18233896)
(GCP Gopher)

Yes, you don't need to use the appengine context for anything (except to access the services at google.golang.org/appengine/...)

You can use the standard net/http package to make HTTP requests, for example.