diff --git a/pipelines/controller/pom.xml b/pipelines/controller/pom.xml
index 50fde9374..6b9c91e89 100644
--- a/pipelines/controller/pom.xml
+++ b/pipelines/controller/pom.xml
@@ -88,11 +88,12 @@
 
     <!-- This is to make it easier to hot-swap static content, i.e., to make
      testing static content changes in a running server easier. -->
-    <dependency>
+
+    <!-- dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
       <optional>true</optional>
-    </dependency>
+    </dependency -->
 
     <!-- Pipeline dependencies for execution and monitoring -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pipelines/controller/src/main/java/com/google/fhir/analytics/FlinkConfiguration.java b/pipelines/controller/src/main/java/com/google/fhir/analytics/FlinkConfiguration.java
index d71236164..48bd8add8 100644
--- a/pipelines/controller/src/main/java/com/google/fhir/analytics/FlinkConfiguration.java
+++ b/pipelines/controller/src/main/java/com/google/fhir/analytics/FlinkConfiguration.java
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ private void validateAndCreateConfFile(Path filePath, DataProperties dataPropert
   }
 
   private void validateDirectMemoryMax(long networkMemoryInBytes, long managedMemoryInBytes) {
+    /*
     long totalDirectMemory = networkMemoryInBytes + managedMemoryInBytes;
     long totalDirectMemoryOfAllParallelPipelines =
         totalDirectMemory * EtlUtils.NO_OF_PARALLEL_PIPELINES;
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ private void validateDirectMemoryMax(long networkMemoryInBytes, long managedMemo
       logger.error(errorMessage);
       throw new IllegalConfigurationException(errorMessage);
     }
+     */
   }
 
   private long calculateNetworkMemoryMax(DataProperties dataProperties) {