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+title: Elasticity
+tags: flexible
+related: adaptability, scalabiltiy, flexibility
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+>In distributed system and system resource, elasticity is defined as "the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible"
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+> [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(system_resource))
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+Note: Wikipedia quotes Herbst, Nikolas; Samuel Kounev; Ralf Reussner (2013). "Elasticity in Cloud Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not" (PDF). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2013), San Jose, CA, June 24–28.
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+Elasticity is the ability of a system to adapt to workload changes by _dynamic scaling_.
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