Come explore a feature we’ve created that is not supported out-of-the-box: the ability to add or remove nodes to always-on real time Spark Streaming jobs. Elastic Spark Streaming jobs can automatically adjust to the demands of traffic or volume. Using a set of configurable utility classes, these jobs scale down when lulls are detected and scale up when load is too high. We process multiple TB’s per day with billions of events. Our traffic pattern experiences natural peaks and valleys with the occasional sustained unexpected spike. Elastic jobs has freed us from manual intervention, given back developer time, and has made a large financial impact through maximized resource utilization.