But now, having `Query(max_length=50)` inside of `Annotated`, we are telling FastAPI that we want it to extract this value from the query parameters (this would have been the default anyway 🤷) and that we want to have **additional validation** for this value (that's why we do this, to get the additional validation). 😎

FastAPI will now:

* **Validate** the data making sure that the max length is 50 characters

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**Note**: You can mix `def` and `async def` in your *path operation functions* as much as you need and define each one using the best option for you. FastAPI will do the right thing with them.

Anyway, in any of the cases above, FastAPI will still work asynchronously and be extremely fast.

But by following the steps above, it will be able to do some performance optimizations.

## Technical Details