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The Best Blog Post I’ve Read in a Long Time
Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day,
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
BREAKING NEWS: Jamie DeMichele Wins Redfin's Strongest-Man Competition
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:30 a.m., some of Redfin’s finest physical specimens have been stripping down to our under-shirts to compete in the
Start Spreading the News… Redfin Comes to New York and Sacramento!
Start spreading the news! The Redfin spaceship landed yesterday in Long Island and Westchester County in New York as well as California’s Central Valley, including
How We Roll…
**April 29, 2009 Ride Canceled Due to Rain** First there were the Redfin cycling jerseys. Then the chatty rides around Mercer Island on Wednesday mornings,
Big Redfin Survey: Even More Than Service, Real Estate Consumers Want Transparency
Every few months, Redfin surveys the folks using our site to try to understand how real estate consumers move between online and offline worlds, so
Mortgage Brokers or Lenders? Depends on Whom You Ask…
If Redfin is going to offer the best service in our markets, our agents have to know more about real estate, which means we have
Begging and Choosing
Fred Wilson talked the other day about the importance of choosing a group of venture capitalists who like working together. It reminded me of how
