--- title: "Ever expanding Go executables" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 358 published_at: "2021-04-16" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/358" --- Plus using Go to make Python faster, and how Google's SRE team uses Go. | #​358 — April 16, 2021 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/358) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/yislu9qy95vwkksvtgjt.jpg)](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size-update/) ['My Go Executable Files Are Still Getting Larger..'](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size-update/) — [Why are my Go executable files so large?](https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html) was a popular post in 2019 that dug into just _what_ Go executable files contain. 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