Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Authentication cache

Spring Security performance becomes one of the major concerns when there is a maximum number of calls hit on the application. By default, Spring Security creates a new session for each new request and prepares a new security context every single time. This becomes an overhead when maintaining user authentication, and due to that, performance is lowered.

For example, we have an API that requires authentication on each request. If there are multiple calls made to this API, it will impact the performance of the application which uses this API. So, let's understand this problem without a caching implementation. Take a look at the following logs, where we call an API using the curl command, without a caching implementation: ...