One Year of Fidgeting: The Journey to Enterprise-Grade Content Distribution
Today marks a milestone. The Adaptive Enforcement Lab documentation site is live, and with it, a year's worth of battle-tested patterns for GitHub App automation finally have a proper home.
This wasn't a sprint. It was an on-and-off effort spanning twelve months, guided by a simple principle: one building block at a time. Atomic habits applied to infrastructure. Some weeks meant solving a single authentication edge case. Others meant no progress at all. The pieces accumulated slowly, each one small enough to ship, test, and trust before moving on.
Then came today. A marathon session to wire everything together. The discovery stage that had been working in isolation. The distribution logic refined over months of incremental improvements. The idempotency patterns born from countless failed reruns. Today was assembly day—taking a year of atomic improvements and building the complete content distribution system.
This post covers that journey from "let's automate some file syncing" to "we need enterprise-grade security for 40 repositories."