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

To combat the significant growth of the Datadog Agent's artifact size, engineers implemented a series of optimizations that reduced Go binary sizes by up to 77% without sacrificing functionality. Through systematic dependency auditing, targeted code refactors, and re-enabled linker optimizations, the team successfully minimized the agent's footprint for resource-constrained environments like IoT and serverless platforms.