It's nowhere near these volumes, but at work we recently experienced traffic spikes like 35-fold in the span of 30 seconds for a few minutes, then faded regular

It's nowhere near these volumes, but at work we recently experienced traffic spikes like 35-fold in the span of 30 seconds for a few minutes, then faded regularly for a few hours. Our scaling was too slow to be of any use for such pattern. There are legitimate needs for things that scale as fast as possible.