This document discusses building a scalable search architecture in SharePoint 2013. It begins with an overview of the speaker and agenda. It then addresses common misunderstandings around search architecture before explaining the logical components of search - crawl, content processing, analytics processing, index, administration, and query processing. It provides examples of how to design the architecture based on assessment of content size and user load. Finally, it offers guidance on implementing and verifying the search architecture using PowerShell.