A race condition occurs when the order of execution of two or more threads may affect
some variable or outcome in the program. It may turn out that all the different possible
thread orderings have the same final effect on the application: the effect caused by the race
condition may be insignificant, and may not even be relevant.

Synchronized keyword can be applied to static/non-static methods or a block of code to make
your code Thread Safe. Only one thread at a time can access synchronized methods and if
there are multiple threads trying to access the same method then other threads have to
wait for the execution of method by one thread. Synchronized keyword provides a lock
on the object and thus prevents race condition.

public void synchronized method(){} 
public void synchronized staticmethod(){}
public void myMethod(){
            synchronized (this){           
            }
}

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