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Dropwizard Aerospike Tutorial

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Dropwizard Aerospike Tutorial Introduction         I was searching online for an end to end Dropwizard Aerospike Integration tutorial and I could not find even one. Dropwizard and Aerospike are being used extensively in many startups and other technology giants but there is not a single end to end tutorial online. Hence I decided to come up with this post. This post will give you a comprehensive overview of Dropwizard and Aerospike Integration. The use case that I am trying to address in this post is to call Aerospike from a RESTful Web Service. Aerospike can be used in multiple use cases, however in this post I am using it as a cache on top of a database so that I can retrieve the data that I frequently use, efficiently and much faster than retrieving it from the database. In this post, to keep things simple, I am not using a database instead I am creating and using a HashMap as my database.  Aerospike