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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”

Why I Joined Redfin: Trevor Kemp
Trevor Kemp is a Redfin principal agent on Long Island, New York. He joined Redfin in June 2024 after more than a decade at East

Redfin Welcomes June Agent Hires
It’s my honor to introduce you to our June Newfins! I’m excited to welcome this group of talented lead agents and look forward to seeing

Homeowners Can Now Use Redfin Redesign For Their Home Photos!
It’s official—Redfin Redesign is now available for both homebuyers and sellers! As of today, any homeowner can now upload a photo of their home and

Why I Joined Redfin: Jonathan Chvala
Jonathan Chvala is a Redfin principal agent in Chicago. He joined Redfin in May 2024 after building and managing a successful team at Keller Williams.

Redfin Welcomes May Agent Hires
Summer is here, and so is a new group of incredible agents who are joining Redfin! Please join me in welcoming all of the talented

Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to RealTrends Verified Top Agent Ranking
It’s a big day at Redfin as more than 600 of our agents were named among the country’s most successful real estate agents by RealTrends