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The only thing about these 2 tools is that they can only ran on Windows. Which can be a barrier for most developers. We run mac ubuntu and redhat everyday. Sometimes it's even hard to get a windows machine inside company.
https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns/
(Also, the name is awesome)
wrk is pretty awesome for non-distributed testing. It supports lua scripting so it actually can be used to do tests that bust caches or run other custom logic. If you need a more sophisticated product, I've used jmeter before. It is distributed, supports all kinds of protocols, scenarios, etc. If you want to stress test a checkout flow it can be good. It's kind of an ugly mess though.
Enter something like: http://domain.com/article/$RND(1000,9999)} to get random urls every time.
Please note, that website needs to be public accessible.