Centrally govern and remotely manage Datadog Agents at scale with Fleet Automation

The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries – up to 77% – by focusing on static linking, stripping debug information, and leveraging UPX compression. They found statically linking with `-ldflags="-s -w"` and then compressing with UPX offered the best balance of size reduction and performance impact, ultimately leading to faster deployment and reduced resource usage.