Using volatile vs AtomicInteger in Java concurrency

When to use volatile, and when to use Atomic counterparts like AtomicInteger? What are the advantages and use cases of each?
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Done thanks 0:40 changing a variable in one thread will NOT reflect in the other thread. (Threads both have access to the variable, but each thread running on a different core the cpu has a local cache of the variable) 2:30 volatile solves visibility issue but doesn’t solve synchronization issues (when both threads are modifying the same variable, both could increment but the value is only +1 instead of +2) 4:50 solving synchronization with synchronized keyword 5:15 atomic variables provide atomic operations (incrementong happens as one operation instead of read then increment then write, where both threads could be running together) 6:30 which variables to make volatile and which values to make atomic

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It might also help to share that volatile is enough if there is just one thread writing and multiple threads reading a variable. However, if more than one thread write, then we've those synchronize those.

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Nice Info, but mentioning on Compare and Swap (CAS) for Atomic operation would help your user to understand more and how optimistic locking works.

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