 of the most challenging aspects of running an always-on streaming pipeline is the correct sizing of Flink deployments. … Clearly, it would be desirable to automatically adjust the resources for Flink deployments. This process is referred to as autoscaling.&rdquo;  - The Flink community is planning to propose an operator based vertex autoscaler. See <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-271%3A&#43;Autoscaling">FLIP-271</a> for further details. Beyond the autoscaler, which is one 