Bennett Borofka

Senior cloud architect → AWS • Observability • AI

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

Cloud architecture. Observability. AI-built systems.

Focused on how systems behave in production.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

GPT-5.4 is available today in @awscloud Bedrock, 5.5 coming within weeks.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@thesohom2 Thanks @thesohom2 ! Are you building on AWS?

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

I built a small open-source project called Watchy.

It monitors SaaS outages (starting with Slack + GitHub) inside your AWS account using CloudWatch.

Built for teams that want SaaS health visibility without another vendor.

https://t.co/urKUNBHPwQ

[Watchy @watchy_cloud]

Watchy is live.

Open-source, AWS-native SaaS monitoring using CloudWatch.

• Slack + GitHub status & incidents
• Metrics, dashboards, alarms
• Serverless + CloudFormation
• Runs in your own AWS account

Deploy in ~2 minutes → https://t.co/B7Sp5iX9XT

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@brankopetric00 This is often overlooked

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@brankopetric00 It’s part of the maturity curve. Most people or teams won’t realize they need monitoring until they feel the pain without it.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@Abhinavstwt https://t.co/RmnBleLqJs

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@gustojs @kirodotdev I'm also using the Kiro IDE mostly, for daily workflows. I'm giving the CLI a shot more and more.

An AI agent-based GUI tends to be what I'm after the most. I want to a blend of AI chat/guidance experience while keeping code fully visible and editable in a large window.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

What's stopping you from vibe coding with @kirodotdev ?

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@gael_elan101 Imaging the price if there were no competition.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@0xIlyy The irony is in teaching coal miners to just "learn to code" while simultaneously moving towards a growing power shortage.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

SLA uptimes aren’t about precision, they’re about architecture.

• 99.9% ≈ 43 min / month
• 99.99% ≈ 4.3 min / month
• 99.999% ≈ 26 sec / month

Each extra “9” changes what your system must tolerate, not just how carefully you measure it.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@brankopetric00 An $800 CloudWatch Logs bill would be ripe for cost optimization by adjusting log retention settings.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@iruletheworldmo Throwback

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@pmitu Making 1 and 2 the same is the key to making work not feel like work.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@gustojs @kirodotdev Agree, sometimes I flip over to another IDE to use Gemini 3 Pro for frontend design.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

One simple way to reduce your Amazon CloudWatch bill is to enable log retention.

Many customers use AWS services that write logs to log groups with retention set to "net expire".

At ~$0.03 per compressed GB, storing logs this way can add up to hidden costs.

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@ShishirShelke1 2 Fake Auth

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@maorshlomo This would be an interesting case study. How much $ are they saving? How are they handling support, service reliability, bug resolution?

[Bennett Borofka @bborofka]

@_MaxBlade This is true