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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
Redfin Welcomes February and March Agent Hires
Spring is officially here, and we’ve been busy welcoming some amazing agents and managers across the country to help us kick off a busy homebuying
Redfin Next is Coming To Seven New Markets!
We’re bringing Redfin Next to seven more markets! Under this compensation plan, Redfin agents in Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Miami, New York, Palm Beach, and Washington,
NAR Settlement: Kaboom!
The National Association of Realtors today entered into a $418-million settlement agreement for a wide range of class-action lawsuits brought by home-sellers. Unlike the earlier
Introducing Ask Redfin, an AI-Powered Tool to Quickly Answer Questions about For-Sale Homes
Redfin is making it a little easier for you to quickly find information about homes on the market thanks to our new generative AI-powered virtual
Redfin Adds Air Quality Risk Data for U.S. Homes
Today, Redfin became the first brokerage to publish air quality risk data, which is available for nearly every U.S. home on Redfin.com and the Redfin
Redfin Welcomes January Agent Hires
Redfin is kicking off 2024 strong. We’ve added some amazing agents and managers to our teams across the country! They bring experience from all corners
