Company News
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”

Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz, Discusses Imposter Syndrome and More During REDx Talk
Yesterday, we had a special guest in the Redfin office as a part of our 2015 REDx series; Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz.

Amazon as an Antidote to Life Inside the High Technology Bubble
Here in Seattle what we’ve learned from Amazon is how good it is to try hard things, even those that sometimes require extraordinary effort. Now more than ever, we should come to praise Amazon’s grit, not to bury it. Silicon Valley needs it. America needs it.

Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Columbus!
People in Columbus can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes and use Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home for sale in greater Columbus.

How We Became (A Little More) Impervious to Failure
Part of what our father taught us was how to resist growing up. This is what I try to do at work, insisting that Redfin is still growing up too; what after all is a startup if not a sustained, collective delusion?

Redfin Now Has Real Estate Agents in El Paso, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley
Redfin now has real estate agents in El Paso, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley! People in these parts of Texas also now have access to Redfin’s online and mobile tools, which they can use to search for every home for sale in these cities.

How Redfin Pays Women and Men
To narrow the gender gap, some employers are releasing data on how we pay employees. Redfin has now reached a size where we have a meaningful number of employees in similar roles, and so today we are releasing data on the relative pay of women and men at our company.