EvanBoyle commented 9 years ago

Adding Azure Search to your app

Search is often one of the default methods of navigating in a web/mobile app. Quality of search can make or break things like engagement, return visits, conversions etc. But building an maintaining a good search experience is difficult, and the tools available are either very expensive, or have extremely steep learning curves. Azure Search is a new search SAAS offering that substantially lowers the barrier to entry. I'd like to do a live coding lab with the group where we take an application and build some cool search features step by step, like auto-complete/suggestions, faceting, visualizations, etc. I really enjoyed participating in the react workshop (in February maybe?) that followed a similar format. I'd plan on providing a github project that the group could use to follow along, and would likely build the demo application in react (although I'm open to suggestions). I've built some simple search UI in react in the past and would love the chance to expand on it:

https://github.com/AzureSearch/AzureSearchNodeJSIndexerDemo/tree/master/js/UI

I've given a meetup talk on Azure Search in the past. Here is the summary I used as well as the slide deck that went with it. When given the option, I much prefer live coding demos than PPT.

http://www.slideshare.net/EvanBoyle1/adding-azuresearch

summary used for previous meetups:

Many applications use search as the primary interaction pattern for their users. When it comes to search, user expectations are high. Users expect great relevance, suggestions, and solid linguistics that effortlessly handle spelling mistakes, near-instantaneous responses, multiple language, faceting, and more. During this presentation, Evan Boyle (Engineer on Azure Search) will take a mobile application with a SQL backend and show just how easy it is to add a rich full text search experience with Azure Search.

Speaker:

Evan Boyle is an Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Search. Evan has experience in a variety of fields including security research, data visualization, and predictive analytics. Evan is currently responsible for the management and monitoring experience in the new Azure portal.

hamoore commented 8 years ago

I'm sorry we haven't gotten back to you yet on this! I know this proposal is getting a little old, but is this still relevant and are you still interested in giving this talk?

EvanBoyle commented 8 years ago

Yes I'm still very interested in giving a talk. I've been working on a 100% react/flux search demo that provides lots of really cool features such as infinite scroll loading, suggestions/typeahead, filtering and faceted search. I thought it might be interesting to do a workshop where we build/recreate some of these features together.

hamoore commented 8 years ago

That sounds very cool! How long do you think you would need?

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Evan Boyle notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes I'm still very interested in giving a talk. I've been working on a 100% react/flux search demo that provides lots of really cool features such as infinite scroll loading, suggestions/typeahead, filtering and faceted search. I thought it might be interesting to do a workshop where we build/recreate some of these features together.

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EvanBoyle commented 8 years ago

It depends on how in depth you'd like me to go. I'd say in half an hour I could do an overview of the search technology and setting that up, plus a walk through of the react/flux app. If I was doing a workshop sort of thing I'd imagine an hour would probably be more ideal.

On Monday, December 21, 2015, Heather Moore notifications@github.com wrote:

That sounds very cool! How long do you think you would need?

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Evan Boyle <notifications@github.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','notifications@github.com');> wrote:

Yes I'm still very interested in giving a talk. I've been working on a 100% react/flux search demo that provides lots of really cool features such as infinite scroll loading, suggestions/typeahead, filtering and faceted search. I thought it might be interesting to do a workshop where we build/recreate some of these features together.

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hamoore commented 8 years ago

Great! We do generally max out at 30 minutes for talks, but I'll speak with the organizers and see if they think making an exception would be beneficial! We are currently sorting out a calendar for the year, so I'll get back to you as soon as we have a better idea of the best timing!

EvanBoyle commented 8 years ago

Great, keep me posted!

On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Heather Moore notifications@github.com wrote:

Great! We do generally max out at 30 minutes for talks, but I'll speak with the organizers and see if they think making an exception would be beneficial! We are currently sorting out a calendar for the year, so I'll get back to you as soon as we have a better idea of the best timing!

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EvanBoyle commented 8 years ago

Hi Heather,

Any updates?

hamoore commented 8 years ago

Hi Evan! We're still in discussions, but I will see if I can get any information for you! :)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:14 AM Evan Boyle notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Heather,

Any updates?

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Heather Moore Office Manager

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