Intro Presentation To Azure Search backend using at the Global Azure BootCamp in Microsoft Lisbon on 25/4/2015

1. #GlobalAzure
Azure Search
Search as a Service
Alexandre Marreiros
@alexmarreiros
amarreiros@gmail.com
www.digitalmindignition.com

2. THE BIGGEST
MICROSOFT AZURE
COMMUNITY EVENT
183 LOCATIONS
+60 COUNTRIES
+10000 PEOPLE

3. Global Sponsors

4. • CTO @ Innovagency
• Software Dev/Arch as Independent
• Technical Trainer and Speaker as Independent
• Teacher @ EDIT
• Technical Writer
• Windows Platform Development Microsoft MVP
• Microsoft Windows DevCamp Trainer
• Windows Insider
@alexmarreiros
amarreiros@gmail.com
www.digitalmindignition.com

6. Agenda
Search relevance ; Azure Search ; Next Steps ; Questions and answers ; References

7. Search Relevance

8. Search Relevance
■Is simple
■Natural
■Don’t require train to use
■Expected
■Helps users to drill the right set’s of data

9. Power Expectation
The Verge

10. Why People Build Their Own Search Engine
 2 Real Answer what’s the most relevant result’s;
 To define what’s the right data scope for the searchable data;
 To answer Search serves not only the user itself but aso the business;

11. Why not use product search engines
■Expensive;
■Poor UI;
■Poor configurability or extensibility;
■The levels of configuration does not serve the Business needs;

12. Our “HandCraft” Search end’s up many times being expensive or not what us and our client
need / want
Omeganic.com

13. Azure Search
• Full costumizable engine running on the cloud;
• Provides Search as a Service;
• Client UI and Technical Agnostic;
• Scallable;
• Able to be integrated by API or by a Rest interface;
• Cost controlled;
• Able to Integrate with on premesis and out premesis systems;
• Entirely focus on developer’s;

14. Azure Search Arch

15. Azure Search Process

16. Azure Search Process

18. Create Search Service

19. Search Service Information

20. Search Service Index Creation

21. Search Service Creation

23. Azure Search Process

24. Update the Search Index
Post to your server when theres a change on the data domain
https://demosearchgwab.search.windows.net/indexes/hotelindex/docs/index?api-version=2014-07-31-Preview

25. Update the Search Index
The Most recomended in the case it is supported. You can connect to a DataBase also using a Restfull Approach.
CodeSnipet for the creation of the Index based on a DataBase

26. Using Search From .NET SDK

27. Azure Search Service Features
• Scalability;
• Restfull API
• SDK
• Automatic Index and
Programatic Index
• Access Control
• Multiple Index (can be used to
define search scopes)
• Language Support
• Full Text Search
• Scoring ( allow to build ranking
models)
• Facets navigation
• Highlighted hits
• Reporting Analysis
• Search Sugestion

28. Examples of how to build Search sugestions
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/20/azure-search-
how-to-add-suggestions-auto-complete-to-your-search-
applications/

30. References
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/azure/dn798933.aspx
• Essential Azure ebook
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/articles/search-manage/
• http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-
Exposed/Azure-Search-General-Availability-and-
Whats-New
• http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/Using-
Azure-Search-in-your-ASPNET-MVC-website
• https://azuresearchadventureworksdemo.codeplex.co
m/
• https://azuresearchadventureworksdemo.codeplex.co
m/
• http://www.slideshare.net/amarreiros/azure-search-
as-a-service-mentoring-frelance-ug

31. • CTO @ Innovagency
• Software Dev/Arch as Independent
• Technical Trainer and Speaker as Independent
• Teacher @ EDIT
• Technical Writer
• Windows Platform Development Microsoft MVP
• Microsoft Windows DevCamp Trainer
• Windows Insider
@alexmarreiros
amarreiros@gmail.com
www.digitalmindignition.com

32. Thanks!