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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 Ensures Equal Access to Reproductive Care
In response to Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, here is Redfin’s statement on its commitment to ensure its employees’ access
A Redfin Layoff
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 8:00 a.m. PDT on June 14, 2022. For the public posting, we removed
Redfin Adds Internet Service Provider and Speed Data to Homes on Redfin.com
As skyrocketing housing costs and remote work continue to drive a record share of homebuyers to relocate, house hunters are more eager than ever to
Redfin Launches Rental Search!
Consumers Can Now Search for Apartments and Homes for Rent on Redfin’s Website and Apps Rental Search is Powered by RentPath, which Redfin Acquired in
Redfin Launches Self-Service Marketing Platform for Agents and Coordinators
Great marketing is essential to real estate. Redfin has always prided itself on the high quality of our listing photography and marketing materials that make
Black History Month: Eminent Domains, Black Domains
This email was sent to all Redfin employees. Each year, Redfin explores housing’s role in the history of Black people in North America. Last year,
