Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Steven Carmody <>]

Hi,

We'll be making some changes to the mechanisms we use to replicate 
groups from MACE Grouper to Google. We currently have the Grouper Change 
Log process send a message on a Message Bus; various listeners pick up 
the msg and replicate the change into various external directories and 
services.

One of those listeners talks to google. Traditionally, one of the 
problems with this mechanisms has been that google "throttles" the total 
volume of thruput thru its interfaces. The Listener used a weird 
adaptive algorithm to keep the traffic volume just below google's 
trigger point.

Since we're about to make some changes here, I thought it would be a 
good time to ask whether anyone knows whether google's throttling 
algorithm has seen any significant changes in the last year or so. Have 
the parameters on the google end changed enough that we should change 
our "self-throttling" algorithm ?

Thanks for any hints and information!