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What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex
Take Your Child to Work Day – Redfin Style
In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd was also Take Your Child to Work Day. Originally designed as “Take your Daughter to Work Day”
Redfin Adds Air Quality Risk Data for U.S. Homes
Today, Redfin became the first brokerage to publish air quality risk data, which is available for nearly every U.S. home on Redfin.com and the Redfin
Redfin Welcomes January Agent Hires
Redfin is kicking off 2024 strong. We’ve added some amazing agents and managers to our teams across the country! They bring experience from all corners
Why I Joined Redfin: Ted Chen
Ted Chen is a Redfin Premier agent in the Bay Area. He joined Redfin in December 2023 after building a successful team at eXp Realty.
Redfin Announces ‘Sign & Save’ Program, Helping Homebuyers Save Thousands
In more than 50 markets, homebuyers who hire Redfin after the first home tour get a refund of 0.25% of the purchase price back when
Redfin Supports Consumer Choice in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Senate Committee on Government Operations is considering a bill to ensure homeowners who sell their homes “For Sale by Owner” (FSBO) can advertise
Introducing Redfin Redesign, an AI-Powered Tool to Redesign Listing Photos
Today, Redfin is making it a little easier to see the potential in your future home! Introducing Redfin Redesign, an AI-powered tool that lets you
