About This Session
Andrew will cover the basics of setting up Microsoft Azure Search and DocumentDB in your Azure environment. He will show how to generate and load data into both. From there Andrew will walk you through an example car shopping web site that demonstrates a search first navigation experience backed by a NOSQL data store. By the end of this talk you will walk away with a fair understanding of how to set up and configure Azure Search and DocumentDB for your applications. You will also learn how to use faceted searches to deliver the best search results for your users. And you will learn how to include a NOSQL implementation into your application as well as when to choose it over a relational database.
The Speaker(s)

Principle Architect, Clear Measure
Andrew has been building software for over 20, building large scale easy to manage systems. Member of the ASP Insiders. Publisher of 3 programming books. Outside of work, Andy is writing two non-software related books, building up his sustainable farm, home schooling his six kids, and helping to manage various three gun events.