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Published inMay 2023
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Chris Seferlis
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Chris Seferlis is an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience working in IT and solving technology challenges to accomplish business goals. Chris has an MBA from UMass, bringing a mix of business acumen, with practical technology solutions, focusing on the Microsoft Data Platform and Azure.
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Christopher Nellis
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Christopher Nellis is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and is experienced in deploying large-scale infrastructure for organizations. He has a passion for automation and MLOps and enjoys working with people to solve problems and make things better.
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Andy Roberts
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Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts is a seasoned Data Platform and AI Architect. He has dawned many hats in his career as a developer, dba, architect, project lead, or more recently a part of a sales organization, the heart of his job has always revolved around data. Acquiring it, shaping it, moving it, protecting it and using it to predict future outcomes, processing it efficiently.
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Understanding how Azure Cognitive Search is built

Azure Cognitive Search is a robust and mature service with roots in the Azure Search service that was created back in 2014 originally. The Search service was developed by using the same technology that powered Microsoft Office and Bing Search. Azure Search was retired in 2019 and the capabilities were folded into Azure Cognitive Search with newer, enhanced AI features. The service was originally developed to provide a flexible API-based search solution for developer applications without requiring infrastructure deployments. This freed developers' time up by reducing the number of hours needed to build and maintain an in-house, full-text search solution for their applications.

At its core, Cognitive Search offers two main functions, indexing and querying:

  • Indexing – As with other search service providers, indexing is simply the process of loading data and documents into a repository or pointing an indexer to the...
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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801812917

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Chris Seferlis

Chris Seferlis is an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience working in IT and solving technology challenges to accomplish business goals. Chris has an MBA from UMass, bringing a mix of business acumen, with practical technology solutions, focusing on the Microsoft Data Platform and Azure.
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Christopher Nellis

Christopher Nellis is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and is experienced in deploying large-scale infrastructure for organizations. He has a passion for automation and MLOps and enjoys working with people to solve problems and make things better.
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Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts is a seasoned Data Platform and AI Architect. He has dawned many hats in his career as a developer, dba, architect, project lead, or more recently a part of a sales organization, the heart of his job has always revolved around data. Acquiring it, shaping it, moving it, protecting it and using it to predict future outcomes, processing it efficiently.
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