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"The Magic of Crisis"

Marina Nitze, Carla Geisser, m weaver, Mikey Dickerson

30 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

Watch Carla's presentation on "The Magic of Crisis" at the LeadDev conference:

The magic of crisis
Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.
LeadDevCarla Geisser

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Crisis Engineering on ProdCast

Crisis Engineering on ProdCast

The latest episode of ProdCast features Layer Aleph partner Carla Geisser, who gives a great overview of how to tell an incident from a crisis, and the 5 signs you may be in a useful crisis (including what to do if your cat wakes you up to invite you onto

By Marina Nitze 03 Mar 2026
A man-sized machine and a man-sized job are effectively handled by 21-year-old Virginia Grochowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The AI Layoffs

For most of the economy, the "AI" recession looks much like other recessions. That's good news for anxious policy-makers; at least they know what to expect. The much bigger hazard will be the financial wildfire that starts in the tech industry itself.

By Mikey Dickerson 17 Feb 2026

Crisis Engineering 101

Layer Aleph is a group of four people who each had success leading our own bands before we decided to work together. Each of us has worked on large complex systems for about 20 years, and as Layer Aleph, we have taken on around 30 consulting jobs that were interventions

By Mikey Dickerson, Carla Geisser, m weaver, Marina Nitze 30 Nov 2025
SRE Transformation: Our Thoughts

SRE Transformation: Our Thoughts

Most of our jobs at Layer Aleph have been to fix a specific, urgent problem. We founded the company hoping to be a kind of Titan Salvage for computers—we are available on short notice, we go where most people won’t, and we take contracts where the deliverables are

By Marina Nitze, Carla Geisser, m weaver, Mikey Dickerson 15 Nov 2022
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