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Synchronous database queries help avoid subtle bugs, because every await is a chance for the state of the world to change underneath the code.
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- Kenton Varda Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers
More importantly, though, synchronous queries help you avoid subtle bugs. Any time your application awaits a promise, it's possible that some other code executes while you wait. The state of the world may have changed by the time your await completes.
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