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In the first video of this series we start with one of the simplest, yet one of the most used Design Patterns out there: the Singleton Design Pattern.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 What is the Singleton Pattern?
01:54 Simple Singleton Implementation
03:37 Thread-Safe Singleton Implementation
06:53 Enhanced Singleton Implementation
07:48 Recap
08:18 Thanks for Watching!
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@geekific
Жыл бұрын
😂 Check our newest videos, we fixed that!
Damn man. That's a unique teaching ability to explain every reason. Nice.
@geekific
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot :) Glad it helped!
Incredibly clear man THANKS
Very well constructed, step by step explanation. Thank you!
Thanks for the video, it was really useful.
Awesome.....Haven't seen this indepth singleton implementation, mostly people just do a first level of implementation without thinking of the multithreaded environment.
Thanks for clear explanation!
Hey man, your videos are super awesome. Thank you so much for the good work
Thank you so much for making this video. Helped a lot!
Super clear 👏 Thank you !
Nicely explained. Thank you!
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Great explaining skills, I read many documentation but I completely understood from your video
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you! Glad it was helpful :)
Thank you so much for a well coordinated video!! Kudos to you
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure :) Glad you liked it!
Good channel. I started reading Head First Design Pattern, but I think I'm gonna drop it and just learn from you.
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Checking multiple references is not a bad idea, that's what I did when I try to put a video together! I am really glad you found our videos helpful :)
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Жыл бұрын
@@geekific Gonna watch them all.
That was giga clear. Tanks buddy
thank you so much ,very clear
That was a great explanation
overwhelmed
the best i've seen
Thank you!
So with this pattern you can replace a single simple method that instanciate 10 different classes (implementing the same interface/abstract class) in a switch by 10 new creator classes to respect "Open to extension Close to modification" .... That's AMAZING ... What a great idea that's so much better now. LOL
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@geekific
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that! Thanks for the support :)
Cool video! It would be dope if you could also explain an alternative approach of making a singleton using enums please. Oh, and numbering the videos would be really beginner-friendly and much appreciated by the viewers!
@geekific
3 ай бұрын
Will add it to my list of upcoming videos! Stay Tuned!
sick explanation and video
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Great video. But how to we actually use it now? Should there also be a setter to update the variables?
Not sure why you don't have much more views for this video. I don't think anyone explained the multi thread issue in any of the singleton pattern video. Great job and thank you.
I just found out about this channel and subscribed to it. Great Job! Although I think your volatile explanation is a bit wrong. I think volatile tells the OS that this variable will always be written/read to/from the RAM instead of the CPU cache memory. So let's dive in the example where we don't have volatile: Thread A enters the synchronized block and checks if instance is null (still haven't started initialization), at the same time thread B checks if instance is null outside the synchronized block and sees the instance to be null. Therefore thread B also tries to enter the synchronized block but will have to wait for thread A. Thread A after a successful initialization will exit the synchronized block and eventually return. But thread B on the other hand, inside the synchronized block will again see the instance to be null (since the instance variable might only be stored in the cache of a different CPU core where thread A was operating, and where thread B can't see), and will initialize it again. This will not be happening if the "instance" variable is declared volatile: Thread A enters the synchronized block and checks if instance is null (still haven't started initialization), at the same time thread B checks if instance is null outside the synchronized block and sees the instance to be null. Therefore thread B also tries to enter the synchronized block but will have to wait for thread A. Thread A after a successful initialization (will write instance to RAM directly instead of the CPU cache) will exit the synchronized block and eventually return. Now thread B, when checking again if the instance is null inside the synchronized block, will see that it is already initialized (since it will read directly from RAM) and will return that value. Correct me if I am wrong
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the support! I am afraid you are, it is exactly like I explained in the video, I suggest you watch that part again and if you still have trouble please let me know how can I improve my explanation in the future :) Additionally, feel free to check these references, maybe their approach will be better than mine at explaining the subject: stackoverflow.com/questions/11639746/what-is-the-point-of-making-the-singleton-instance-volatile-while-using-double-l (first answer in this Stack Overflow thread) or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked_locking#Usage_in_Java (The part where they explain the "Broken multithreaded version"). Hope this helps! Cheers!
Good channel. Helped me a lot. However I would request you to put even more detail to compete with other channels.
@geekific
3 жыл бұрын
Happy it helped! and thanks for the feedback will take it into consideration in future videos :)
amazing!
@geekific
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
What is the use of "private String data" field here? If i call the getInstance() function with some data string, it will not update the data field of the instance. The first getInstance() call will set the data value and it will never change again. What am I missing?
@rburaksaritas
Ай бұрын
Nevermind, the question is already asked before and answered well. If anyone thought the same thing: A: Very nice! This video was mainly about the Singleton Pattern that is why I didn't want to delve other details. But what you could do is create a map and store several singletons based on their names, then the single instance would be tied to that name. So, in the most common example if you were using the singleton for DB instances and you were using two of them, you'll have two records in your map! Hope this helps :) Cheers!
If the singleton needs to call a web service to fetch the singleton data such as access token, where do you place the logic to invoke the web service? Do you put it inside the singleton class or outside? Please clarify.
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Depends on what your singleton is. If that's its whole purpose, like a token generator or something then it should go inside.
There is so much stuff there. This feels like it should be solved by just making the whole thing a global atribute.
please explain eager and lazy instantion
After instance was initialised, it doesn't matter anymore what String data we pass as parameter to getInstance, it will always return the instance with the data when the method was called the first time. It this really the correct way of doing that?
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Very nice! This video was mainly about the Singleton Pattern that is why I didn't want to delve other details. But what you could do is create a map and store several singletons based on their names, then the single instance would be tied to that name. So, in the most common example if you were using the singleton for DB instances and you were using two of them, you'll have two records in your map! Hope this helps :) Cheers!
@Artoooooor
9 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I thought.
good
OMG wow man
Cool, but you should use enum for that.
I think there is one mistake. An additional 'instance =' At the end it says instance = result = new Singleton(data);
@geekific
2 жыл бұрын
Nope :) This is equivalent to result = new Singleton(data); instance = result; we need to assign the new Singleton created to the instance we have and not just the result being returned or else we will be fetching that result and creating a new instance every time! Cheers!
@tb7377
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, good to know. Thanks
i want a written notes of what ever he said can someone help me?
6:24 I don't get how volatile fixes the problem. It only makes thread B reread the variable from memory when returning it but the variable could still not be fully initialized by thread A.
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
It won't be there!
@martingeorgiev999
Жыл бұрын
@@geekific I am afraid I don't understand what you are referring to, what won't be where?
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
It will not be written to memory until fully initialized
Good explanation, but the second if condition is redundant, isn't it?
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Basically more than half of the video was dedicated into answering this question. Kindly watch between 3:25 to 7:00. Cheers!
@nirmalgurjar8181
Жыл бұрын
No, it's just to check again if an instance is already created while the current thread was waiting for lock to acquire after the first check, 2nd check will be rarely used as most of times first check will be not null and return from there, double check is just for initialisation if many threads are trying to initialise the instance at the same time.
>country can't have two presidents San Marino has entered the chat
Very nice job. But we can still break this by serialize the object and deserialize it to create a duplicate object. I guess you should have covered that particular scenario on how to overcome that.
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! Will keep that in mind for future videos! Stay Tuned :)
"most used pattern" - As far as I know, many programmers call it an anti-pattern...
@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Being an anti-pattern isn't keeping people from using it ;P
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@geekific
Жыл бұрын
Please, let us know which parts exactly were not clear so we may try and help in the comments section :)
That was giga clear. Tanks buddy
Thank you!