30MB binaries can be a bit of a problem for some people.
I started developing a system from home and when deploying to a VPS for testing and production. Transferring Go binaries was like waiting for a floppy disk to copy due to poor Internet infrastructure. Compression didn't help much.
It turned out to be significantly faster to push to a remote git and have a hook do the build. I think before you look to compress a go binary consider if there aren't other options.
I started developing a system from home and when deploying to a VPS for testing and production. Transferring Go binaries was like waiting for a floppy disk to copy due to poor Internet infrastructure. Compression didn't help much.
It turned out to be significantly faster to push to a remote git and have a hook do the build. I think before you look to compress a go binary consider if there aren't other options.