Company News
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
Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to ‘America’s Best’ Ranking by RealTrends
More than 900 Redfin agents were named today on the RealTrends’ list of America’s Best Real Estate Professionals! This is an independently verified ranking of
An Update to Redfin’s Values
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees on May 24, 2023. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet.
Redfin Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help People Find Their Next Home
Today, we launched a Redfin ChatGPT plugin to help people find homes that are a great fit for them. It was built with OpenAI, an
Redfin CEO Email on New Hybrid-Office Policy
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 23, 2023. For the public posting, we removed
Redfin Expands to the Colorado Rockies
Today, Redfin launched its brokerage service in the Colorado Rockies! That means homebuyers and sellers in Summit, Eagle, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Lake and Park counties
Redfin Premier is Available Nationwide!
Today, Redfin expanded its Redfin Premier luxury real estate service nationwide. That means consumers can now work with an expert Redfin Premier agent to buy