Scalable Redundancy
TL;DR
When demand spikes 10x, do you pay for permanent overcapacity or scale dynamically? Biology solved this by keeping stem cells dormant until stress signals activate them.
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Systems designed to scale redundancy up or down based on needs rather than maintaining fixed redundant capacity.
Business Application of Scalable Redundancy
AWS auto-scaling groups automatically add server capacity when traffic increases and remove it when traffic decreases. TSMC's modular fab design allows incremental capacity additions. Credit lines provide scalable financial redundancy - undrawn during normal operations, rapidly activated during crisis.