Speed Kit

Videos & Presentations

On building a faster web.

Recent Publications

April 15, 2021

Going for Speed: Full-Stack Performance Engineering in Modern Web-Based Applications

Handout Slides (Frontend)Slides (Network)Slides (Backend)Slides (Tracking)

February 5, 2021

How Baqend Built a Real-Time Web Analytics Platform Using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

October 15, 2020

Ladezeiten von Online-Apotheken: Branchenanalyse und Optimierungspotenziale

October 1, 2020

The Pandemic Response for Web Performance

August 23, 2020

"go live within a matter of days […] across our biggest markets, Germany, France, and UK"

July 9, 2020

"Speed Kit accelerated loads on our website […] led to a double digit uplift in conversion rate."

Case Studies

October 1, 2020

The Pandemic Response for Web Performance

August 23, 2020

"go live within a matter of days […] across our biggest markets, Germany, France, and UK"

July 9, 2020

"Speed Kit accelerated loads on our website […] led to a double digit uplift in conversion rate."

January 15, 2020

"Not only a 3.9x page speed boost you can feel, but a 55% conversion uplift we can measure."

January 15, 2020

"Speed Kit accelerated our site by 2.5x. There is no doubt about the great ROI."

September 17, 2019

"With Speed Kit, we have zero maintenance time to achieve [competitive performance]."

May 6, 2019

"With Speed Kit, we achieved more than 2x faster paints for our mobile users."

Research Papers

March 24, 2021

Generating Realistic Test Datasets for Duplicate Detection at Scale Using Historical Voter Data

Paper Teaser (30 sec.)Video

August 31, 2020

InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases (Extended)

June 9, 2020

Context-Aware Encoding & Delivery in the Web

Paper Slides Video

April 20, 2020

InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases

Paper Slides Video

April 20, 2020

Speed Kit: A Polyglot & GDPR-Compliant Approach For Caching Personalized Content

Paper Slides Video

March 6, 2019

Twoogle: Searching Twitter With MongoDB Queries

August 23, 2018

LIFT: Reinforcement Learning in Computer Systems by Learning From Demonstrations

March 29, 2018

Real-Time Data Management for Big Data

August 29, 2017

Quaestor: Query Web Caching for Database-as-a-Service Providers

Paper Slides Video

March 6, 2017

The Case For Change Notifications in Pull-Based Databases

December 9, 2016

Learning Runtime Parameters in Computer Systems with Delayed Experience Injection

June 30, 2016

NoSQL Database Systems: A Survey and Decision Guidance

March 4, 2015

Towards Automated Polyglot Persistence

March 4, 2015

The Cache Sketch: Revisiting Expiration-based Caching in the Age of Cloud Data Management

September 23, 2014

Nosql OLTP Benchmarking: A Survey

September 23, 2014

Towards a Scalable and Unified REST API for Cloud Data Stores

April 1, 2014

Orestes: A scalable Database-as-a-Service architecture for low latency

Meetups & Local Events

August 6, 2020

Tracking & Analyzing User Behavior for Online Performance Optimization

May 2, 2018

Progressive Web Apps and Service Workers

January 21, 2018

The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps: Service Workers in Detail

June 12, 2017

How to Develop a Backend-as-a-Service

May 9, 2017

Our Lessons Learned Building a Backend-as-a-Service: A Technical Deep Dive

February 27, 2017

High-Traffic-Websites mit Ladezeiten unter einer Sekunde: Lessons Learned

December 15, 2016

Real-Time Queries in Baqend

November 14, 2016

Baqend: the German answer to Firebase

October 26, 2016

Real-Time Databases Explained: Why Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse, and Firebase Don't Scale

June 28, 2016

Distributed Cache-Aware Transactions for Polyglot Persistence

June 15, 2016

Bloom Filters for Web Caching

May 26, 2016

Baqend: A Backend-as-a-Service for Web and Mobile Apps

April 8, 2016

Cache Sketches — Using Bloom Filters and Web Caching Against Slow Load Times

February 4, 2016

Building a Global-Scale Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform on AWS and Docker: Lessons Learned

November 25, 2015

Mit der Cloud Ladezeiten abschaffen

November 2, 2015

Towards Scalable Cloud Data Management

March 25, 2015

Skalierbares Big Data Management

September 24, 2014

Orestes: Scalability and Low Latency for Polyglot Database Services

Blog Articles

April 27, 2021

Mobile Site Speed, Part 4: Measurement Best Practices

February 5, 2021

How Baqend Built a Real-Time Web Analytics Platform Using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

February 4, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint is About to Drop by 20% in Chrome 88

August 27, 2020

Mobile Site Speed, Part 3: The Business Perspective

August 7, 2020

Mobile Site Speed, Part 2: The User Perspective

May 20, 2020

Mobile Site Speed & The Impact on Web Performance – Part 1

April 26, 2020

Dynamic Cache Lifetime With Immutable Cache-Control Headers

April 16, 2020

E-Commerce Loading Times in the COVID-19 Crisis

October 12, 2019

Caching the Uncacheable: How Speed Kit Accelerates E-Commerce Websites

August 9, 2018

Chrome's Service Workers Break HTTP/2 Priorities

April 29, 2018

Rethinking Web Performance with Service Workers

March 9, 2018

Web Performance Made Simple

October 13, 2017

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned

July 16, 2017

A Real-Time Database Survey: The Architecture of Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase

June 27, 2017

Building Static Sites in 2017: Cloud-Hosted, CMS-Backed, and API-Driven

May 17, 2017

Lessons Learned Building a Backend-as-a-Service: A Technical Deep Dive

March 24, 2017

Web Performance in a Nutshell: HTTP/2, CDNs and Browser Caching

March 17, 2017

High Performance Website Hosting with SSL and HTTP/2 Made Simple

Magazines, Journals & Books

May 16, 2020

Fast and Scalable Cloud Data Management

May 8, 2019

Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases

Slides PhD thesis

January 3, 2019

Real-Time & Stream Data Management

December 18, 2018

Low Latency for Cloud Data Management

Slides PhD thesis

February 1, 2018

Schnellere Websites mit HTTP/2

September 8, 2017

Laden Sie noch oder surfen Sie schon?

June 24, 2016

Real-time Stream Processing for Big Data

September 4, 2015

Polyglot Persistence

Conference Talks & Tutorials

April 15, 2021

Going for Speed: Full-Stack Performance Engineering in Modern Web-Based Applications

Handout Slides (Frontend)Slides (Network)Slides (Backend)Slides (Tracking)

October 15, 2020

Ladezeiten von Online-Apotheken: Branchenanalyse und Optimierungspotenziale

February 17, 2020

Mobile Site Speed & the Impact on Web Performance

February 17, 2020

Webcaching: Moving Away from a Binary Decision

January 5, 2020

Breaking Bad Performance: Mobile Site Speed & the Impact on Web Performance

October 25, 2019

Mobile Site Speed and the Impact on E-Commerce

October 25, 2019

Service Workers in Action: Building an Offline-Capable Webshop in under 90 minutes

October 24, 2019

Big Data Analytics With AWS Athena

October 24, 2019

Panel: GDPR – Who Cares?

September 3, 2019

Web Performance Management with BI: Faster Business Growth through Speed

May 28, 2019

Service Workers: The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps (Workshop)

March 5, 2019

NoSQL & Real-Time Data Management in Research & Practice

December 10, 2018

Push vs Pull: The Future of Real-Time Databases in the Cloud

October 19, 2018

Service Workers: The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps

October 19, 2018

Creating High-Performance Web Apps with WebAssembly

October 19, 2018

Enhancing Data Processing in Browsers Using Streams

October 19, 2018

Real-Time Processing Explained: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark & Flink

September 13, 2018

Enhancing Data Processing in Browsers Using Streams

September 13, 2018

Vue.js in Echtzeit: Live-Coding einer Realtime-Anwendung

September 12, 2018

Scalable Stream Explained: Surveying Storm, Samza, Spark & Flink

September 12, 2018

The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps

September 29, 2017

Real-Time Anwendungen mit React und React Native entwickeln

September 29, 2017

Wie man ein Backend-as-a-Service entwickelt: Lessons Learned

September 29, 2017

AMP, PWAs, HTTP/2 and Service Workers: A new Era of Web Performance?

September 28, 2017

Real-Time Databases Explained: Why Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase Don't Scale

May 18, 2017

Scalable NoSQL-Architectures

May 17, 2017

Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink

April 27, 2017

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads

March 7, 2017

Scalable Data Management: An In-Depth Tutorial on NoSQL Data Stores

October 3, 2016

NoSQL data stores in research and practice

September 30, 2016

Web Performance — die effektivsten Techniken aus der Praxis

September 29, 2016

Real-Time-Anwendungen mit TypeScript entwickeln

June 10, 2016

Das große Einmaleins der NoSQL-Datenbanken

May 20, 2016

Scalable data management: NoSQL data stores in research and practice

June 29, 2015

Tutorial on Scalable Cloud Databases in Research and Practice

Paper Slides Video

May 11, 2015

Sicher und hochperformant: skalierbare Websites mit modernen Cloud-Services

March 2, 2015

Skalierbare NoSQL- und Cloud-Datenbanken in Forschung und Praxis

April 29, 2014

Scalable Cloud Databases in Research and Practice

November 12, 2013

Skalierbare Cloud-Datenbanken in Forschung & Praxis

November 8, 2012

Why latency kills Database-as-a-Service and how to overcome it

Pitching Events

October 18, 2018

Finalist (Digital Infrastructure)

June 5, 2018

Winner (VC Pitch)

November 7, 2017

Semi-Finalist (Startup Pitch)

September 14, 2017

Finalist (Startup Hatch)

March 13, 2017

German Haus Pitch

November 30, 2016

Slush100 Semi-Finalist

September 21, 2016

Winner (Jury & Audience Award)

February 19, 2016

Winner Audience Award