Use case for application (auto)scaling

[{“insert”:"I’m thinking about writing an article on Cloud Foundry’s app autoscaling and load balancing features, but I’m lacking ideas on interesting use cases. Typical example apps I found on the web somewhat artificially swamp disk\/memory with random numbers so that they run out of resources but I was looking for something more “real”. Any ideas anyone?
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[{“insert”:"Blogs that might get to the front page of Reddit where you don’t want the “hug of death” to take down everything is the obvious one. Components (like auth) that gets called several times from everywhere would be a good thing to autoscale as well
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[{“insert”:"you mean something like apache benchmark to simulate load ?
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[{“insert”:"Yeah ab might be the go to solution here.
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[{“insert”:"In my CF demos, I’ve used locust…allows me to target a service using the api for that service. Can nicely show the autoscale features of CF.
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Oh thanks, didn’t know about Locust yet, will definitely take a look.

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