Spring Boot & Redis

In this article, we will talk about Redis and how to connect to it via a Spring Boot application.

What is Redis?

Millions of developers use Redis as an open-source in-memory data store, database, cache, streaming engine, and message broker. Redis is frequently referred to as a data structure server. In other words, it means that Redis offers basic commands that can be used as a server-client approach by TCP sockets to access and modify data structures. As a result, many processes can share access to the same data structures and change them when required.

When to use Redis

There are different known use cases for Redis, and you can find some of them here with a simple description:

Real-time datastore

Having a huge amount of data that needs to be stored and processed in real-time is becoming an everyday challenge for businesses. In…