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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”
What’s Your Home Worth? Well, See For Yourself
For the past five years, Redfin has sought to build the perfect site for folks to preview, visit and ultimately buy homes for sale. But
Growing, Fast and Slow
“Greed,” Gordon Gekko once declared, “is good.” Oliver Stone’s private-equity titan was referring to the process of creative destruction, in which ravenous corporate raiders strip
Now Available on Redfin: Filter by HOA Dues!
Our website wizards at Redfin are always on the prowl for new features that can wow and amaze our customers. Even more so when it’s
Philly, We Have Arrived!
Bust out the cheese-steaks—Redfin has arrived in Philly! The Philadelphia real estate market is our 19th market overall and our first in more than a
How Stupid Can You Be?
Catherine Rampell at the New York Times today reports that “state colleges in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Florida and Texas have eliminated entire engineering
The Mood Among 2012 Home-Buyers: Feisty
Of the people planning to buy within the next 12 months, more than half are either already under contract on a purchase or planning to be under contract within three months.
