What are the tradeoffs between using synchronous and asynchronous client libraries when connecting an application to Redis?

Synchronous clients are generally simpler to write and reason about but can block your application's execution while waiting for a response, while asynchronous clients allow your application to continue doing other work while waiting for Redis to respond, generally offering better throughput for applications that need to handle many concurrent operations, at the cost of somewhat more complex code.

// Asynchronous usage with ioredis
const value = await redis.get('key');
// The application can process other tasks
// while this awaits the Redis response