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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”

Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 5
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed five Redfin Agents to

Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 4
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to

Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 3
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to

Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 2
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to
It’s a Red, Red, Red, Red World
Viewing the World Through Red-Colored Glasses If you’re a frequent visitor to our site, you may have noticed something different about the page today. After

What Price, Beauty?
Well, look at that! The Redfin design team made our site red! This morning we launched a site completely redesigned to be more spacious and