title: How to stress-test HTTP Live Streaming
body: <p>We built an <em>youtube-like</em> Rails application that serves videos using HTTP Live Streaming which are hosted on our company's S3-like (actually <a href="http://ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/s3/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ceph Object Gateway S3 API</a>) cloud service.</p>
  
  <p>It's the first public application on that storage service and we would like to know how much concurrent viewers it can handle beforehand.</p>
  
  <p>We know that the network connection (10Gbps) will become the bottle neck at a certain stage, but we have no idea how much load the actual storage cloud service is able to handle.</p>
  
  <p>How would you stress-test the HTTP Live Streaming?</p>
  
  <p>Is something similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/151650/61427">this (UDP) suggestion</a> an option in this (TCP) case?</p>