public static short toShort(ByteBuffer buf, int offset) {
        if (LITTLE_ENDIAN) {
            return Short.reverseBytes(getAsShort(buf, offset));
        }
        return getAsShort(buf, offset);
    }
Reads a short value at the given buffer's offset considering it was written in big-endian
format.

@return short value at offset
stroom-bytebuffer/src/main/java/stroom/bytebuffer/hbase/UnsafeAccess.java