From Hand-Tuned Go to Self-Optimizing Code: Building BitsEvolve

This is a mirror entry of an article I co-authored published in Datadog Engineering Blog . At Datadog, cost-aware engineering is more than a principle; it’s a performance challenge at scale. We’ve published how we saved $17 million by rethinking our infrastructure, and we’ve built Cloud Cost Management to help customers do the same. But scaling deep, expert-level code optimization across a…