In this story, we’ll implement a sample REST API that uses Spring WebFlux with Spring Data Redis Reactive.
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Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Prerequisites
Spring Boot 2.6.5
Maven 3.6.+
Java 11 or later
Redis 3.2 or later
Getting Started
We will start by creating a simple Spring Boot project from start.spring.io, with the following dependencies: Spring Reactive Web, Spring Data Reactive Redis, Lombok, and Validation.
