Google Campfire One release to aid developers pinpoint source of sluggishness in Web applications
Tuesday
night at
Google Campfire One, a Google-sponsored event targeted
specifically at the developer community, the
much-more-than-your-average-search-engine company announced yet another
awesome new addition to the tech world:
Speed Tracer.
Fitting the air of the evening perfectly, Speed Tracer is designed
specifically with the needs of Web developers in mind, particularly
those involved in programming and testing heavy-duty Web applications
that can sometimes run much slower than expected. Because applications
of this kind typically have so much going on, it can sometimes be
difficult to pinpoint the precise source of code taking up all the
bandwidth.
A Google Chrome extension, Speed Tracer diagnoses performance issues
via a "Sluggishness Graph," alongside other analytical tools.
Typical of Google, the Sluggishness Graph is designed to be so
braindead simple that developers can find what their looking for in
less than a minute.
"We think developers will find that Speed Tracer looks under the covers
of web applications like never before," said Engineering Director Bruce Johnson. "In fact, we even used Speed
Tracer to optimize the performance of Speed Tracer itself!"
In addition to Speed Tracer, Google also announced that the Web toolkit
will also include a tool that developers can use to split their code.
For large programs, such a tool comes quite in handy and could
drastically increase load times.
All in all, this has been an exciting week in Google news. We are only
halfway through the week and the tech world is still buzzing about
Google Goggles and Google's foray into
real-time search. Combined with
the release of Speed Tracer (not to mention an all-out attack on
Google-abusing scammers), Google has certainly managed to dominate tech
news this week.
Check out a video tutorial on Speed Tracer
here.
Steven Loeb
