SpringBoot and Spring Data Redis

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Introduction

This post guides us through creating a simple Spring Boot project with Redis as our caching solution. Redis, an in-memory data store, is widely used for caching due to its speed and efficiency, allowing faster data retrieval and improved application performance. We’ll cover from setting up the project and adding the Redis dependency to implementing basic caching operations.

Spring Boot Starter Project

We need to have the following dependencies :

• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa — starter dependency provided by Spring Boot that simplifies the setup of Spring Data JPA (Java Persistence API). It allows developers to interact with relational databases in a more object-oriented way, reducing the need for boilerplate code like SQL queries and complex database configurations.
• spring-boot-starter-data-redis — a Spring Boot starter that simplifies integrating Redis, a fast, in-memory data store, into Spring applications. It provides everything needed to connect, configure, and work with Redis using the Spring Data Redis module. Due to its speed and efficiency, Redis is often used for caching, session management, and message brokering in high-performance applications.
• spring-boot-starter-web — a Spring Boot starter dependency that…