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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”
Redfin Introduces New Instant Notifications in Apple Safari OS X Mavericks
Today Apple announced that OS X® Mavericks, the company’s 10th major operating system, would be available to download for free, and Redfin already has a brand new feature for Safari ® users!
The End of Search: Introducing Redfin Matchmaker
Finding what you’re looking for is easy. Finding what you never knew you wanted is divine. This is especially true in real estate: we swoon for
Vote Today! Send Redfin to the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival
Each March tens of thousands of tech fans descend on Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival (SXSW). Sessions at this annual conference explore a host of topics from
Redfin Launches Price Whisperer to Ask Buyers What Your Home is Worth
There’s no arguing with people about what their home is worth. Last winter, I tried convincing a neighbor who has long wanted to move that
The Perfect Portrait of Redfin's Culture
Every afternoon at 2:00, Redfin’s engineers and product managers gather for a set of push-ups, sit-ups, planks, crunches and burpees. Last Thursday, our president of
The Perfect Portrait of Redfin’s Culture
Every afternoon at 2:00, Redfin’s engineers and product managers gather for a set of push-ups, sit-ups, planks, crunches and burpees. Last Thursday, our president of
