Java Concurrecy: Volatile vs Atomic - Java Programming

In this video, we'll talk about the difference between volatile fields vs atomic variables in the context of Java multithreading and concurrency. A lot of people think marking a field volatile will also make all operations on it atomic, but the two concepts are quite different. Hope you like the video!

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[DenaTollefson]

Awesome video, Will! I can see why people get the atomic keyword and volatile keyword confused. You explained everything so clearly, and also explained more insights in how to handle multithreaded code vs single threaded code.

[jaylordjl]

Nice sir pls continue posting sir coz weve learn alot and hoping that you've come up with java + database. Thank you

[titoluzuriaga]

Great video. Regarding 9:45, because it's an object reference then it's not cached by the thread? Is it always reading from the heap (or L3 perhaps)?

Very good examples. Thank you very much for sharing

[melwin-dmello-dev]

Nice!! This was a concise quick reference. Thanks a ton!

[abhishekwagh]

great explanation!! make a series on concurrency and multithreading. Thanks!!

[lawrencebeutlich]

This is good stuff, thank you for your content

[khattami]

Can you share the code samples in gists?

[blaaarpu]

if we have 2 threads I expected to see the logs twice, why it print it only once?