How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog

This post details how Datadog reduced the size of its Agent Go binaries by up to 77% through dependency auditing, refactoring, and re-enabling linker optimizations. It explains Go's build process, introduces tools like `go list` and `goda` for analyzing dependencies, and discusses strategies for excluding unwanted dependencies using build tags and package isolation. The team also contributed improvements to the Go toolchain.