Elasticsearch is a leading search and analytics solution thousands of companies use worldwide for use cases, including search, analytics, monitoring and security information and event management. With an emphasis on speed, scale, and relevance, it's transforming how the world uses data. In this session, we'll learn about the core concepts and terminology around Elasticsearch and the Elastic stack. Steve will address questions such as "What is a cluster?" and "How should we organise data into indices?" Most of this session is language-independent, but the final portion will provide examples of leveraging the power of Elasticsearch within .NET applications. Join Steve to learn about the official Elasticsearch .NET client, including how to begin indexing and searching documents. This session is aimed at software developers looking to get started by combining the capabilities of Elasticsearch with their applications.