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”
Grab Your Shades: Redfin Expands in the Sunshine State
Redfin is the only brokerage in Tampa and Orlando with agents who are paid a salary and receive benefits.
Redfin iPhone App Updates Announced at Facebook f8
(Update: Check out our interview from Facebook f8 here) Today at the Facebook f8 Conference, Facebook Message Dialog and App Links were unveiled, and I’m
Why I Work at Redfin: Rick Szekely, Redfin Agent
Rick Szekely, a Redfin real estate agent in Chicago, tells us what it’s like to work at Redfin from an agent’s perspective. If you’re interested in joining the company, be sure to check out our jobs page at https://redfin.com/about/jobs.
Your New Way Home Starts with the Redfin Real Estate App
Mobile technology is making it easier than ever to shop around and compare prices on the biggest purchase you’ll make in your life: your home. With the Redfin Real Estate app you can peruse thousands of homes for sale, get detailed information on each, and even schedule a home tour directly from the app.
Redfin Updates Android App with Home Tour Requests and Sold Home Search
Android fans, listen up! Starting today, you can request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent directly from your Android phone. You can also find information on SOLD homes, whether they sold yesterday or years ago, using the Redfin Real Estate app for Android
Redfin Posts Open Letter to Zillow on Inman.com
Today, Redfin posted an open letter to Zillow on Inman.com. We are asking for changes to how Zillow displays Redfin listings so consumers can easily
