I want to start using load balancers, database replication and sharding, cloud computing. I know I can follow many tutorials, that's no problem, but I don't know how to generate sufficient traffic to load the web server. I want to see my test application working really slow and then apply some scaling techniques.
Q How can I generate huge load on my local IIS server? What tools can I use?
P.S. if it will help I want to use RESTful WCF service and No SQL DB/Cloud storage for a test app
There are several tools available, here are a couple of free ones:
Although these are both java tools, you can use them to generate load directed at IIS