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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”
Vote for Redfin as the Next Tech Titan
Redfin is a finalist in the Next Tech Titan category for the upcoming GeekWire Awards. Cast your vote for Redfin.
Redfin Teams Up With Move For Hunger
Redfin is partnering with Move For Hunger, a nonprofit organization that benefits food banks nationwide.
Why Redfin Agent Keith Thomas Will Be Wearing Red Pants This Month
Your real estate agent needs to be responsive, available and attentive to your needs, no matter how busy they are. And that’s exactly how the clients of Keith Thomas Jr., a Redfin real estate agent, described him in his review, which earned Keith this month’s “Red Pants Award” for excellent client service.
Redfin Agents Arrive in Knoxville and Oklahoma City
Howdy, neighbor! Redfin is setting up shop in a new neck of the woods, Oklahoma City, and extending its roots in Tennessee to Knoxville. People
Redfin Agents Arrive in Cincinnati, Louisville and Salt Lake City
What do Cincinnati, Louisville and Salt Lake City have in common? Not a whole lot until today when they officially become home to Redfin agents, who are paid based on customer satisfaction! People in these areas can now search for homes on Redfin.com and the Redfin iOS and Android apps.
Redfin Shared Search Makes It Easy for Spouses, Agents and Parents to Work Together on a House Hunt
Today Redfin launched Shared Search, a feature that makes it easy for people who are shopping for a home together to save, share and comment on their favorite homes.
