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Dive into the inner workings of serverless platforms in this 54-minute Devoxx conference talk presented by Google's Monika Nawrot and Marek Biskup. Explore serverless principles, focusing on Google Cloud's offerings such as App Engine, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run. Understand process-level resource isolation, execution environments, and how requests and events are served. Learn about the differences between functions, apps, and containers, and why monoliths shouldn't be disguised as microservices. Gain insights into serverless concurrency and billing practices. Follow a practical example of optimizing a text-to-image function, including deployment, testing at scale, memory management, and performance improvements. Discover techniques for better compression, background downloading optimization, and moving computations to the global scope.