Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Azure Redis Cache

Azure Redis Cache is built on top of an open source store called Redis (https://github.com/antirez/redis), which is an in-memory database and persists on disk. As per Microsoft's description (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cache/):

"Azure Redis Cache is based on the popular open source Redis cache. It gives you access to a secure, dedicated Redis cache, managed by Microsoft and accessible from any application within Azure."

Getting started with Azure Redis Cache is very simple if you take the following steps:

1. Create a web API project. Refer to our code example in previous chapters.
2. Implement Redis. For a referral point, use https://github.com/StackExchange/StackExchange.Redis. Also, install the Install-Package ...