https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Compilers News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/datadog-go-binary-optimization/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Compilers-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/03/datadog-go-binary-optimization/en/headerimage/go-binary-size-reduction-1773175114910.jpeg"/><p>After the Datadog Agent grew from 428 MiB to 1.22 GiB over a period of 5 years, Datadog engineers set out to reduce its binary size. They discovered that most Go binary bloat comes from hidden dependencies, disabled linker optimizations, and subtle behaviors in the Go compiler and linker.</p> <i>By Sergio De Simone</i> Compilers Optimization Go Language Development news Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/datadog-go-binary-optimization/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Compilers-news Sergio De Simone 2026-03-10T21:00:00Z /news/2026/03/datadog-go-binary-optimization/en