Effective experience-driven insights into optimizing cloud-native applications on Google Cloud. This talk covers strategies for improving performance, ensuring reliability, and controlling costs in real-world deployments. Attendees will learn lessons from production experiences, including scaling services under load, minimizing latency, monitoring health, and avoiding common pitfalls. The session highlights actionable techniques and live examples to help developers optimize cloud-native apps beyond documentation, ensuring they run efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively.