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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
Finally, a New War Story
At lunch with Cynthia and a local real estate baron, we heard about a new tactic for getting a deal on a property. Rather than
Redfin Chases After Steve Ballmer
Redfin attended the Technology Alliance annual luncheon today, to see who would win the startup of the year award. I brought my computer to the
Century 21 Runs an Anti-Redfin Ad!
About a week after Redfin showed up on 60 Minutes, Century 21 started running an ad challenging the idea that you could buy a home
MLS to Redfin: Down Dog, and Kennel!
Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that we have in love to learn only this: letting go. Everything else comes naturally. In starting Sweet Digs, a
60 Minutes Aftermath: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Realtor Scorned
Redfin and the traditional real estate industry duked it out on 60 Minutes last night. The segment aired second, after Mitt Romney took a stand
Unleash the Hounds
Pandemonium here at Redfin as 60 Minutes aired first on the East Coast and now, in a few minutes, out here in the West. When
