!!! note
    FastAPI will know that the value of `q` is not required because of the default value `= None`.

    The `Union` in `Union[str, None]` is not used by FastAPI, but will allow your editor to give you better support and detect errors.

## Without Pydantic

```Python
connect_args={"check_same_thread": False}
```

...is needed only for `SQLite`. It's not needed for other databases.

!!! info "Technical Details"

    By default SQLite will only allow one thread to communicate with it, assuming that each thread would handle an independent request.

    This is to prevent accidentally sharing the same connection for different things (for different requests).

### One Load Balancer - Multiple Worker Containers

When working with **Kubernetes** or similar distributed container management systems, using their internal networking mechanisms would allow the single **load balancer** that is listening on the main **port** to transmit communication (requests) to possibly **multiple containers** running your app.

This was designed this way mainly to allow using the same objects "yielded" by dependencies inside of background tasks, because the exit code would be executed after the background tasks were finished.