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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”
Buyers Should See All the Listings, Sellers Should Control How Their Listing Appears Online
Because we believe that all buyers should be able to see all listings, Redfin.com will not publish any listings that have been publicly marketed before
Redfin Welcomes Over 120 New Agents in March
Redfin was recently recognized as one of the top residential real estate brokerages by RealTrends Verified, a distinction made possible by the hard work and
Redfin Recognized as a Top Brokerage in RealTrends Verified Rankings
For the third year in a row, Redfin has been recognized among the top residential real estate brokerages nationwide according to the RealTrends Verified Brokerage
Adapting to Change: Redfin’s 2025 Industry Survey
Why We Listen to the Industry Redfin has always strived to be the best employer in real estate, and in my nearly 15 years
Home-Sellers Want Different Marketing Options, Not Different Marketplaces
This article was also published on Inman. With NAR’s new pocket-listing policy, brokers can, with the seller’s consent, withhold listings from public view on real
Redfin Becomes 140+ Agents Stronger in February
The housing market is heating up, and Redfin agents are zeroed in on helping buyers and sellers navigate their 2025 moves. And thanks to our
