Big Data links

A few things about big data:

• A book on best practices by Marz and Ritchie. You can pre-read it as well. I'm thinking about it. [hnn thread]
• The data science toolkit, a specialized Linux VM for download with lots of juicy databases and tools preinstalled and a common API.
• Real-time feed processing with Storm. Storm abstracts out the queue-workers pattern into an infrastructure component. Interesting stuff.