Aurajoki Overflow: Site Reliability Engineering - Sponsored by Vincit

Welcome to the Aurajoki Overflow October meetup!

It's our first Aurajoki Overflow for the autumn season of 2026 and we are happy to be hosted by Vincit!

Our first meetup of the autumn season will be happening on Wednesday, 22nd of October.

The October meetup is sponsored and made possible by Vincit.

In this month's meetup we will discuss Site Reliability Engineering, SRE for short! We have Magda telling us about tabletop simulations and how to practice for incident while Lauri is going to show-and-tell us how to test your new SRE hires.

Schedule:

18:00 Welcome! Beverages and snacks!
18:10 Introduction to the meetup and a word from our sponsor Vincit.
18:15 Magdalena Stenius: Tabletop simulations - why, how and when to break your systems for practice
19:00 Break with refreshments, snacks and food
19:15 Lauri Huhta: Hiring for your everyday SRE needs
20:00 Hanging out, Lightning Talks, Relaxing
21:00 -> Afterbeers @ Olutpuoti 5.5

Magdalena Stenius: Tabletop simulations - why, how and when to break your systems for practice

How can tabletop simulations (or fire drills) be used for simulating real outages and practice the ideal incident response process? This talk explores some different approaches on how and why to continuously keep breaking your software systems, how to work with intertwined systems and keep your fellow engineers on their toes.

Lauri Huhta: Hiring for your everyday SRE needs

Hands-on introduction on how to test for reliability engineering during hiring process