Realized there aren't any abstracts listed, so just to give you an idea, this is a talk about removing the complexity of multi-cloud, multi-availability-zone, multi-datacenter, k8s-cluster, at least 3 of everything kitchen sink system architectures and using failure modeling and working with the business to design systems that accomplish goals through graceful degradation and healing under failure. I've written a bit about the technical underpinnings recently at https://aaronbedra.com/post/failure_synthesis/