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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”
Sell Your High-End Home for More Money and Save Thousands With A Redfin Premier Agent
Homes listed by Redfin agents in 2019 sold for more money, with less risk and in fewer days than homes listed by other brokerages.
Dream a Little Bigger
Redfin was featured in an Amazon Web Services case study; here’s why.
These First-Time Homebuyers Captured a Unicorn: A Good Home at a Great Price
How one family managed to snag a deal in a competitive market.
Want to Help the Middle Class? More Houses, Please
The U.S. is building new homes at about half the historical rate, and it’s causing our cities to become unaffordable.
Why I Work at Redfin: Marshall Park
Hear what a long-time real estate agent has to say about what it’s like to work at Redfin.
Redfin Experimenting with iBeacon
How Redfin engineers explored ways to incorporate Apple’s iBeacon into exciting customer experiences.
