* @return a long of a concatenated 8 bytes
   */
  static long load64Safely(byte[] input, int offset, int length) {
    long result = 0;
    // Due to the way we shift, we can stop iterating once we've run out of data, the rest
    // of the result already being filled with zeros.

    // This loop is critical to performance, so please check HashBenchmark if altering it.
    int limit = Math.min(length, 8);

## Decision

We do not use Java serialization. Instead, we use custom serialization where we explicitly describe how data objects should be serialized and deserialized.

For internal purposes, we use binary formats for their brevity.
We use the `Serializer` abstraction to separate the actual implementation of serialization from its uses.

When sharing data with external tools, we use JSON.

## Status

PROPOSED

- **Reduce the size of the Gradle distribution** - We no longer need to carry multiple standard libraries for different languages.

## Decision

We do not introduce new public API methods that include Groovy types in their signatures.
Existing Groovy methods will not be removed immediately.

## Status

ACCEPTED

## Consequences

            <!-- Even after we stop using JSR305 annotations in our own code, we'll want this link so that NullPointerTester's docs can link to @CheckForNull and friends... at least once we start using this config for guava-testlib. -->
            <offlineLink>

## Consequences

* X
* Y
* Z
```

## Status

ACCEPTED

## Consequences

* We start to use Architectural Decision Records
* We use the proposed template from this ADR
* We locate `.md` files in the folder `/architecture-standards`
* We highly encourage usage of ADR to communicate decisions

## Decision

We do not use Java serialization.
Instead, we use custom serialization where we explicitly describe how data objects should be serialized and deserialized.

For internal purposes, we use binary formats for their brevity.
We use the `Serializer` abstraction to separate the actual implementation of serialization from its uses.

When sharing data with external tools, we use JSON.

## Status

ACCEPTED

    WeakReference<? extends Enum<?>> ref = Enums.getEnumConstants(enumClass).get(value);
    /*
     * We use `fromNullable` instead of `of` because `WeakReference.get()` has a nullable return
     * type.
     *
     * In practice, we are very unlikely to see `null`: The `WeakReference` to the enum constant

  chmod +x "/usr/local/bin/bazel"
fi

# "TFCI_MACOS_UPGRADE_PYENV_ENABLE" is used to decide if we need to upgrade the
# Pyenv version. We enable this for macOS x86 builds as the default Pyenv on
# those VMs does not support installing Python 3.12 and above which we need
# for running smoke tests in nightly/release wheel builds.
if [[ "${TFCI_MACOS_UPGRADE_PYENV_ENABLE}" == 1 ]]; then

          if (rule.startsWith(EXCEPTION_RULE_MARKER)) {
            rule = rule.substring(1)
            // We use '\n' for end of value.
            totalExceptionRuleBytes += rule.size + 1
            sortedExceptionRules.add(rule)
          } else {
            totalRuleBytes += rule.size + 1 // We use '\n' for end of value.
            sortedRules.add(rule)
          }
        }
      }

Nevertheless, although we are not using the default integrated functionality, we are still using a Pydantic model to manually generate the JSON Schema for the data that we want to receive in YAML.

Then we use the request directly, and extract the body as `bytes`. This means that FastAPI won't even try to parse the request payload as JSON.