Felix Gessert

Dr. Felix Gessert

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Research Projects

	Baqend Build Faster Apps Faster IFB Hamburg Dr. Felix Gessert, Prof. Dr. -Ing Norbert Ritter, Florian Bücklers, Malte Lauenroth, Hannes Kuhlmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wingerath, Benjamin Wollmer
	Orestes Objects RESTfully Encapsulated in Standard Formats Dr. Felix Gessert, Prof. Dr. -Ing Norbert Ritter
	InvaliDB Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wingerath, Dr. Felix Gessert, Prof. Dr. -Ing Norbert Ritter
	Jadex Rules A lightweight forward-chaining rule engine Prof. Dr. Lars Braubach, Prof. Dr. Kai Jander, Dr. Alexander Pokahr, Dr. Felix Gessert

Curiculum Vitae

Felix is the CEO and co-founder of Baqend. During his PhD he developed a novel caching technology that is the technical basis of Baqend. Felix is the author of numerous papers, articles, and books on the topic of web performance and cloud computing and frequently talks about the challenges of fast and scalable websites. At Baqend he is working on his vision of creating a web without loading times. As a Junior Fellow of the German Informatics Society (GI) he aims at bringing research and startups closer together.

Professional Activities

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Our Conferences & Workshops:

8th Scalable Cloud Data Management Workshop

Organizing committees:

2019, Symposium Chair, 8th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Los Angeles, USA
2018, Symposium Chair, 7th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Seattle, USA
2017, Symposium Chair, 6th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Boston, USA
2017, Symposium Chair, 5th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Stuttgart, Germany
2016, Tutorial Chair, IEEE Big Data 2016, Washington D.C., USA
2016, Symposium Chair, 4th Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Washington D.C., USA
2015, Symposium Chair, 3rd Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Santa Clara, USA
2015, Member of Organisation Committee, Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web, Hamburg, Germany
2014, Symposium Chair, 2nd Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management, Washington DC, USA
2013, Symposium Chair, Scalable Cloud Data Management Workshop, Santa Clara, USA
2013, Session Chair, Organization, DOA-Trusted Cloud 13 (Secure Virtual Infrastructures), Graz, Austria

Member of programm committees and editorial boards:

2020, Journal of Systems and Software
2019, IEEE Big Data Service
2019, Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW)
2019, IEEE Big Data
2018, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems
2018, IEEE Big Data
2018, Security and Communication Networks
2018, Distributed and Parallel Databases
2018, International Conference on Open Source Systems And Technologies
2017, The Sixth International Conference on Data Analytics
2017, International conference on Intelligent Information Technologies
2017, Data Science and Systems
2017, Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal
2017, IEEE Big Data, Exeter, UK
2017, IEEE International Symposium on Smart Data, Exeter, UK
2017, ANT 2017, San Francisco, USA
2017, IEEE BigDataService 2017, San Francisco, USA
2016, Handbook of Big Data Technologies (Springer)
2016, IEEE BigDataService 2016, San Francisco, USA
2015, IEEE ICOSST 2015, Lahore, Pakistan
2015, IEEE Big Data 2015, Santa Clara, USA
2015, IEEE BigDataService 2015, San Francisco, USA

Selected Talks (see this website for more):

2020, NFQ Summit, Mobile Site Speed and the Impact on E-Commerce, Vietnam
2019, Code.Talks, Mobile Site Speed and the Impact on E-Commerce, Hamburg
2019, DAHO.AM, Service Workers: The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps (Workshop), Munich
2019, BTW, NoSQL & Real-Time Data Management in Research & Practice, Rostock
2018, Heureka, Baqend VC Pitch, Berlin (Winner, 10 000 Euro Prize)
2018, Code.Talk, Service Workers: The Technology Behind Progressive Web Apps, Hamburg
2017, AWS Summit, Scalable NoSQL Architectures, Berlin
2017, Startups@Reeperbahn, Baqend VC Pitch, Hamburg (Winner of Jury & Audience Award, 100 000 Euro Prize)
May 11 2017, Devoxx, Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink, and Video
April 28 2017, Code.Talks Commerce, Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned, Berlin
2016, Solutions.Hamburg, Das große Einmaleins der NoSQL-Datenbanken, Hamburg
2016, Percona Live, Scalable Data Management: NoSQL Data Stores in Research and Practice, Amsterdam
2016, NoSQL Database Systems: A Survey and Decision Guidance, Summer SOC, Crete, Greece
2016, Hamburger IT Strategietage, Startup Pitch (Winner)
2016, Scalable Data Management: NoSQL Data Stores in Research and Practice, ICDE, Helsinki, Finland
2015, Tutorial on Scalable Cloud-Databases in Research and Practice, Summer SOC, Crete, Greece
2015, Lecture on NoSQL Databases, Databases and Information Systems Course, Hamburg, Germany
2015, Skalierbares Big Data Management, Handelskammer, Hamburg, Germany
2015, Skalierbare NoSQL- und Cloud-Datenbanken in Forschung und Praxis, BTW, Hamburg, Germany
2014, Orestes: Scalability and Low Latency for Polyglot Database Services, DB2 Community Meetup, Böblingen, Germany
2014, Cloud Databases in Research and Practice, NoSQL Matters, Cologne, Germany
2013, Skalierbare Cloud-Datenbanken, Big Data Days, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin, Germany
2012, Why latency kills Database-as-a-Service and how to overcome it, W-JAX, Munich, Germany

External Reviews:

2015, IEEE CLOUD 2015, 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
2015, IEEE SCC 2015, 12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
2015, CLOUDTECH 2015, 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
2014, IEEE CLOUD 2014, 11th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
2014, IEEE SCC 2014, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
2013, IEEE CLOUD 2013, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
2013, IEEE SCC 2013, 10th International Conference on Services Computing
2013, Closer 2013, 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
2013, BTW 2013, 15. GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web

Publications 10 of 31 (+ more)

2023		Benjamin Wollmer, Wolfram Wingerath, Sophie Ferrlein, Fabian Panse, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter The Case for Cross-entity Delta Encoding in Web Compression (Extended) In: Journal of Web Engineering
2022		Wolfram Wingerath, Viktor Leis, Felix Gessert GI Startup Platform – Community Get Together In: Tagungsband der 52. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, INFORMATIK 2022
		Wolfram Wingerath, Benjamin Wollmer, Markus Bestehorn, Stephan Succo, Florian Bücklers, Jörn Domnik, Fabian Panse, Erik Witt, Anil Sener, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Beaconnect: Continuous Web Performance A/B-Testing at Scale In: Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
		Benjamin Wollmer, Wolfram Wingerath, Sophie Ferrlein, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Compaz: Exploring the Potentials of Shared Dictionary Compression on the Web In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)
		Benjamin Wollmer, Wolfram Wingerath, Sophie Ferrlein, Fabian Panse, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter The Case for Cross-Entity Delta Encoding in Web Compression In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)
2021		Wolfram Wingerath, Benjamin Wollmer, Felix Gessert, Stephan Succo, Norbert Ritter Going for Speed: Full-Stack Performance Engineering in Modern Web-Based Applications In: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW'2021)
2020		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases (Extended) In: VLDB 2020 (Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)
		Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath, Norbert Ritter Fast and Scalable Cloud Data Management In: Fast and Scalable Cloud Data Management
		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Erik Witt, Hannes Kuhlmann, Florian Bücklers, Benjamin Wollmer, Norbert Ritter Speed Kit: A Polyglot & GDPR-Compliant Approach For Caching Personalized Content In: 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020, Dallas, Texas, April 20-24, 2020
		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases In: 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020, Dallas, Texas, April 20-24, 2020
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2019		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter NoSQL & Real-Time Data Management in Research & Practice In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2019), 18. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Datenbanken und Informationssysteme (DBIS), Rostock, Germany, Workshopband
		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Twoogle: Searching Twitter With MongoDB Queries In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), 18. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Datenbanken und Informationssysteme (DBIS), Rostock, Germany, Proceedings
		Wolfram Wingerath, Norbert Ritter, Felix Gessert Real-Time & Stream Data Management - Push-Based Data in Research & Practice In: Real-Time & Stream Data Management - Push-Based Data in Research & Practice
2018		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Erik Witt, Steffen Friedrich, Norbert Ritter Real-Time Data Management for Big Data In: Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2018, Vienna, Austria, March 26-29
2017		Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath, Norbert Ritter Scalable Data Management: An In-Depth Tutorial on NoSQL Data Stores In: BTW Workshops
		Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter SCDM 2017 - Vorwort In: BTW Workshops
		Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath, Norbert Ritter Quaestor: Query Web Caching for Database-as-a-Service Providers In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Steffen Friedrich, Erik Witt, Norbert Ritter The Case For Change Notifications in Pull-Based Databases In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2017), 17. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs ,,Datenbanken und Informationssysteme" (DBIS), 6.-10. März 2017, Stuttgart, Germany, Workshopband
2016		Michael Schaarschmidt, Felix Gessert Learning Runtime Parameters in Computer Systems with Delayed Experience Injection In: Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, NIPS 2016
		Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Steffen Friedrich, Norbert Ritter Real-time stream processing for Big Data In: it - Information Technology
		Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath, Steffen Friedrich, Norbert Ritter NoSQL Database Systems: A Survey and Decision Guidance In: Computer Science - Research and Development
		Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Scalable Data Management: NoSQL Data Stores in Research and Practice In: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016
2015		Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Polyglot Persistence In: Datenbank Spektrum
		Wolfram Wingerath, Steffen Friedrich, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Who Watches the Watchmen? On the Lack of Validation in NoSQL Benchmarking In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2015), 16. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs "Datenbanken und Informationssysteme"(DBIS), 4.-6.3.2015 in Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings
		Michael Schaarschmidt, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter Towards Automated Polyglot Persistence In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2015), 16. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs "Datenbanken und Informationssysteme"(DBIS), 4.-6.3.2015 in Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings
		Felix Gessert, Michael Schaarschmidt, Wolfram Wingerath, Steffen Friedrich, Norbert Ritter The Cache Sketch: Revisiting Expiration-based Caching in the Age of Cloud Data Management In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2015), 16. Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs "Datenbanken und Informationssysteme"(DBIS), 4.-6.3.2015 in Hamburg, Germany. Proceedings
		Felix Gessert Low Latency Cloud Data Management through Consistent Caching and Polyglot Persistence In: Proceedings of the 9th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing
2014		Steffen Friedrich, Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter NoSQL OLTP Benchmarking: A Survey In: 44. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Informatik 2014, Big Data - Komplexität meistern, 22.-26. September 2014 in Stuttgart, Deutschland
		Felix Gessert, Florian Bücklers, Norbert Ritter Orestes: A scalable Database-as-a-Service architecture for low latency In: Workshops Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDE 2014
		Felix Gessert, Steffen Friedrich, Wolfram Wingerath, Michael Schaarschmidt, Norbert Ritter Towards a Scalable and Unified REST API for Cloud Data Stores In: 44. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Informatik 2014, Big Data - Komplexität meistern, 22.-26. September 2014 in Stuttgart, Deutschland
2013		Felix Gessert, Florian Bücklers, Norbert Ritter ORESTES: ein System für horizontal skalierbaren Zugriff auf Cloud-Datenbanken In: Informatiktage 2013

8. October 2024 at 11:52 by Prof. Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf

eMail	gessert@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Room	F528
Phone	+49-40-42883-2334
WWW	https://www.baqend.com

2019		Master Thesis of Benjamin Wollmer Ladezeitoptimierung von Webseiten: Clientseitiges Caching mit GraphQL Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
2018		Bachelorarbeit of Julian Tiemann React Applications with GraphQL Data Management under the Serverless Paradigm Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Felix Gessert
		Bachelorarbeit of Brigitte Kwasny Progressive Web App mit Web Push unter dem Backend-as-a-Service Paradigma Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Felix Gessert
		Master Thesis of Michael Steinke Bereitstellung von Daten aus Umfragetools mit anknüpfender automatischer Auswertung Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
2017		Master Thesis of Stephan Succo Skalierbare, echtzeitnahe Kommunikation von Änderungen an Datenbankobjekten und Abfrageresultaten innerhalb einer Backend-as-a-Service-Architektur Tutors: Wolfram Wingerath, Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
		Master Thesis of Kevin Twesten Entwicklung einer deklarativen Offline-First Applikation unter dem Backend-as-a-Service Paradigma Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
		Master Thesis of Sven Decken Progressives Web Caching: Browser Caching ohne Ablaufdatum für Ressourcen Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
		Master Thesis of Konstantin Möllers A Graphical Metamodelling Framework for the Web Applied on Backend-as-a-Service Systems Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Daniel Moldt, Norbert Ritter
		Bachelorarbeit of Merlin Koglin Erweiterte Suche und Aggregationen mit MongoDB und Orestes Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
		Master Thesis of Jörn Christopher Domnik Integration der Baqend Backend-as-a-Service APIs in Android Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Walid Maalej
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		Bachelorarbeit of Rania Wittenberg The NoSQL Toolbox: an Interactive Database Selection Tool Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
		Master Thesis of Julian Schenkemeyer Integration der Baqend-as-a-Service APIs in IOS Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
2016		Bachelorarbeit of Maxim Holand Eine use-case gestützte Analyse von Resilienz bei einer Umstrukturierung einer Architektur auf Microservices Supervisors: Alexander Pokahr, Felix Gessert
		Bachelorarbeit of Florian Tschoertner Relationale Persistenz in Cloud-basierten Backend-as-a-Service Systemen Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
		Master Thesis of Erik Witt Distributed Cache-Aware Transactions for Polyglot Persistence Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
		Bachelorarbeit of Ralf Pitter Erreichen einer geringen Latenz für DynamoDB durch die "Orestes Caching Middleware" Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
		Bachelorarbeit of Felix Hoffmann Bereitstellen geringer Latenzen für Elasticsearch mittels Orestes Caching Middleware Supervisors: Felix Gessert, Norbert Ritter
		Diploma Thesis of Sebastian Kisiel Cache Worker - Caching Arbitrary Resources without Staleness Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Lars Braubach
		Master Thesis of Lin Shi Monte-Carlo Analysis of Optimistic Transactions with Expiration-based Caching Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
		Master Thesis of Timo Jacobs Integration von Backend-as-a-Service-APIs in Android Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Fabian Panse
2015		Master Thesis of Brian Wetzl Best Practices für REST-APIs Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisor: Norbert Ritter
		Bachelorarbeit of Daniel Soltis Konzeption und Implementierung eines Auto-Skalierungs-Werkzeugs für heterogene Cloud Umgebungen Supervisors: Lars Braubach, Felix Gessert
2014		Bachelorarbeit of Michael Schaarschmidt Prototyp eines Polyglot-Persistence-Mediators Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisor: Norbert Ritter
		Bachelorarbeit of Stephan Succo Entwurf eines Verfahrens zur Abbildung objektorientierter Daten auf Key-Value-basierte NoSQL-Datenbanken Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisor: Norbert Ritter
2013		Master Thesis of Hannes Kuhlmann Persistenz für Smart Clients in 2-Tier-Architekturen Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Winfried Lamersdorf
		Master Thesis of Arne Bleckert Anonymisierung von Log-Einträgen für Do-Not-Track-Requests Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Hannes Federrath, Norbert Ritter
		Bachelorarbeit of Alex Trinz Autoskalierung des NoSQL-DBS MongoDB in Cloud-Umgebungen Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Axel Schmolitzky
		Master Thesis of Martin Scheidweiler Partitionierung von BPMN-Workflows auf Basis von nichtfunktionalen Anforderungen - Ein Ansatz zur flexiblen Ausführung von Geschäftsprozessen unter Einbeziehung von Cloud Ressourcen Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Lars Braubach, Norbert Ritter
		Master Thesis of Ahmed Hodjov Polyglot Persistence Architekturen Tutor: Felix Gessert Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Lars Braubach

	Master Thesis Kohärentes Web-Caching von Datenbankobjekten im Cloud-Computing (2012) Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Winfried Lamersdorf
	Bachelorarbeit Performanz- u. Reaktivitätssteigerung von OODBMS vermittels der Web-Caching-Hierarchie unter Einsatz und Adaption offener Standards (2010) Tutor: Fabian Panse Supervisors: Norbert Ritter, Winfried Lamersdorf