Hi Suraj Puvvada

Yes, Flink back pressure depend on the Flink task buffer。process task will 
sends buffer remaining size to source, source will slow down.

https://www.ververica.com/blog/how-flink-handles-backpressure 
<https://www.ververica.com/blog/how-flink-handles-backpressure>

Jake


> On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:48 AM, Suraj Puvvada <su...@traceable.ai> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to understand if Flink has a mechanism to automatically apply any 
> backpressure by throttling any operators ? For example if I have a Process 
> function that reads from a Kafkaa source and writes to a Kafka sink. If the 
> process function is slow will the kafka source be automatically throttled ?
> 
> Thanks
> Suraj  

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