When to use and how to get querying proficiency

Hi Pedro, let me start with Q1. You are correct that pushing content and doing batching will be the most optimal way of getting content into the search service quickly. Just as a side note, the S2 and higher is backed by premium storage which also allows indexing to happen faster. However, the added cost does not always warrant the increase perf. You might also be interested in this code that we have for optimizing indexing performance that helps understand optimal batch sizes. https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-dotnet-samples/tree/master/optimize-data-indexing

In addition, please keep in mind that you can also parallelize uploads which can allow you to push data even fasters. However, if you do this it is important to keep track of throttling and back off exponentially if you start seeing this. The above sample helps walk through this as well.

Hope that helps!

Liam