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Dropwizard Redis Integration

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Dropwizard Redis Integration Introduction         I was searching online for an end to end Dropwizard Redis Integration tutorial and all I could find were a few GitHub projects with very minimal documentation. Dropwizard and Redis 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 Redis Integration.           Redis is an open-source in-memory database project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value store with optional durability. Hence Redis is used for caching data so that it can be retrieved very quickly. So Redis is commonly used to store frequently used data from the Database so that it can be retrieved quickly and improve the application performance by not making frequent database calls. So in many cases we may need to store custom Java Objects in the Redis cache. Most of you migh