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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 Internet Service Provider and Speed Data to Homes on Redfin.com
As skyrocketing housing costs and remote work continue to drive a record share of homebuyers to relocate, house hunters are more eager than ever to

Redfin Launches Rental Search!
Consumers Can Now Search for Apartments and Homes for Rent on Redfin’s Website and Apps Rental Search is Powered by RentPath, which Redfin Acquired in

Redfin Launches Self-Service Marketing Platform for Agents and Coordinators
Great marketing is essential to real estate. Redfin has always prided itself on the high quality of our listing photography and marketing materials that make

Diversity at Redfin in 2021
Each spring, Redfin reports on the diversity of our employees in the prior year, and the results from our initiatives to make Redfin a better

Black History Month: Eminent Domains, Black Domains
This email was sent to all Redfin employees. Each year, Redfin explores housing’s role in the history of Black people in North America. Last year,

How to Honor Black History Month
A note about how Black history is shaping a new generation of builders and entrepreneurs.