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# Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices

Manual disaster recovery is obsolete. Intuit automated failovers across 5,000 microservices using declarative workflows. See how they slashed recovery time to under five minutes.

- **Speakers:** [Garvit Kataria](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@garvit-kataria), [Sahil Sabharwal](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sahil-sabharwal)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Duration:** 20:28
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100455-boring-failover-predictable-region-recovery-across-5-000-microservices
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