Reduce docker image size by removing Go debug symbols #391
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brandur
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Nice! Yeah. we use a similar technique at work and as far as I can tell there's no downsides whatsoever in practice (theoretically you might be trying to debug a binary, but I've never needed to do that).
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A minor
go buildchange to trim the paths and remove some debug symbols without affectingpanic(). This results in 7MB reduction in binary size