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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 Welcomes August Agent Hires
Redfin is closing out the summer strong by welcoming another great group of Newfins! The talented agents who joined us in August come from all
Don’t End Clear Cooperation
Today, the National Association of Realtors is considering proposals advanced by traditional brokers to undo the Clear Cooperation policy against pocket listings. This would hurt
We’re Expanding Redfin Next Nationwide!
It’s official – we’re taking our Redfin Next agent pay plan nationwide! Starting October 27th, all Redfin agents will earn competitive splits as high as
Redfin Welcomes July Agent Hires
Summer is in full swing, and Redfin isn’t slowing down on our plans to keep growing! Last month, we were lucky to welcome–and welcome back,
Change Is Good
Dear Redfin Customers, As many of you have already heard from your Redfin agent, by the end of this week, most local Multiple Listing Services
Why I Joined Redfin: Jin Hong
Jin Hong is a Redfin Premier agent in Orange County, CA. He joined Redfin in June 2024 after building a successful team at eXp. We
