diff --git a/lib/cartodb/cache/named_map_provider_cache.js b/lib/cartodb/cache/named_map_provider_cache.js
index e4c3dccc..44afc98e 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/cache/named_map_provider_cache.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/cache/named_map_provider_cache.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function NamedMapProviderCache(templateMaps, pgConnection, userLimitsApi, queryT
 
 module.exports = NamedMapProviderCache;
 
-NamedMapProviderCache.prototype.get = function(user, templateId, config, authToken, params) {
+NamedMapProviderCache.prototype.get = function(user, templateId, config, authToken, params, callback) {
     var namedMapKey = createNamedMapKey(user, templateId);
     var namedMapProviders = this.providerCache.get(namedMapKey) || {};
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ NamedMapProviderCache.prototype.get = function(user, templateId, config, authTok
         this.providerCache.set(namedMapKey, namedMapProviders);
     }
 
-    return namedMapProviders[providerKey];
+    return callback(null, namedMapProviders[providerKey]);
 };
 
 NamedMapProviderCache.prototype.invalidate = function(user, templateId) {
diff --git a/lib/cartodb/controllers/named_maps.js b/lib/cartodb/controllers/named_maps.js
index 03885713..7cdd6acd 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/controllers/named_maps.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/controllers/named_maps.js
@@ -83,14 +83,20 @@ NamedMapsController.prototype.tile = function(req, res) {
         function reqParams() {
             self.req2params(req, this);
         },
-        function getTile() {
-            namedMapProvider = self.namedMapProviderCache.get(
+        function getNamedMapProvider(err) {
+            assert.ifError(err);
+            self.namedMapProviderCache.get(
                 cdbUser,
                 req.params.template_id,
                 req.query.config,
                 req.query.auth_token,
-                req.params
+                req.params,
+                this
             );
+        },
+        function getTile(err, _namedMapProvider) {
+            assert.ifError(err);
+            namedMapProvider = _namedMapProvider;
             self.tileBackend.getTile(namedMapProvider, req.params, this);
         },
         function handleImage(err, tile, headers, stats) {
@@ -120,15 +126,20 @@ NamedMapsController.prototype.staticMap = function(req, res) {
         function reqParams() {
             self.req2params(req, this);
         },
-        function prepareImageOptions(err) {
+        function getNamedMapProvider(err) {
             assert.ifError(err);
-            namedMapProvider = self.namedMapProviderCache.get(
+            self.namedMapProviderCache.get(
                 cdbUser,
                 req.params.template_id,
                 req.query.config,
                 req.query.auth_token,
-                req.params
+                req.params,
+                this
             );
+        },
+        function prepareImageOptions(err, _namedMapProvider) {
+            assert.ifError(err);
+            namedMapProvider = _namedMapProvider;
             self.getStaticImageOptions(cdbUser, namedMapProvider, this);
         },
         function getImage(err, imageOpts) {