return theUnsafe.getLong(array, (long) offset + BYTE_ARRAY_BASE_OFFSET);
      }

      @Override
      public void putLongLittleEndian(byte[] array, int offset, long value) {
        theUnsafe.putLong(array, (long) offset + BYTE_ARRAY_BASE_OFFSET, value);
      }
    },
    UNSAFE_BIG_ENDIAN {
      @Override
      public long getLongLittleEndian(byte[] array, int offset) {

Deploying a **FastAPI** application is relatively easy.

## What Does Deployment Mean

To **deploy** an application means to perform the necessary steps to make it **available to the users**.

For a **web API**, it normally involves putting it in a **remote machine**, with a **server program** that provides good performance, stability, etc, so that your **users** can **access** the application efficiently and without interruptions or problems.

    /**
     * This default mode for combining children DOMs during merge means that where element names match, the process will
     * try to merge the element data, rather than putting the dominant and recessive elements (which share the same
     * element name) as siblings in the resulting DOM.
     */
    String DEFAULT_CHILDREN_COMBINATION_MODE = CHILDREN_COMBINATION_MERGE;

We create an async function `lifespan()` with `yield` like this:

```Python hl_lines="16  19"
{!../../../docs_src/events/tutorial003.py!}
```

Here we are simulating the expensive *startup* operation of loading the model by putting the (fake) model function in the dictionary with machine learning models before the `yield`. This code will be executed **before** the application **starts taking requests**, during the *startup*.

    ```

### `Union` in Python 3.10

In this example we pass `Union[PlaneItem, CarItem]` as the value of the argument `response_model`.

Because we are passing it as a **value to an argument** instead of putting it in a **type annotation**, we have to use `Union` even in Python 3.10.

If it was in a type annotation we could have used the vertical bar, as:

```Python
some_variable: PlaneItem | CarItem
```