How to Configure Spring Boot to Work with Memcached

What are the steps to configure Spring Boot with Memcached?

@Bean
public MemcachedClient memcachedClient() throws IOException {
    return new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 11211));
}

Integrating Memcached with Spring Boot allows for efficient caching, which can significantly improve the performance of your application by reducing the load on databases and speeding up data retrieval.

//application.properties
cache.memcached.servers=localhost:11211
cache.memcached.expiration=3600

@Bean
public MemcachedClient memcachedClient() throws IOException {
    return new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress(env.getProperty("cache.memcached.servers")));
}

Causes

• Insufficient caching strategy.
• Slow database calls as a bottleneck.
• Unoptimized application performance during high traffic.

Solutions

• Add Memcached dependency to your Spring Boot project.
• Configure Memcached properties in your application properties file.
• Create a Memcached client bean in your Spring configuration.
• Implement caching in your services with the @Cacheable annotation.

Mistake: Not configuring Memcached server properties properly.

Solution: Ensure that the server addresses and ports are correctly specified in the application configuration.

Mistake: Missing caching annotations in the service classes.

Solution: Include @Cacheable, @CachePut, or @CacheEvict annotations where caching behavior is desired.