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
From Customer to Market Manager: My Redfin Career Path
Four and a half years ago I didn’t have my real estate license and I was working in an uninspiring government job. Today, I manage
Celebrating Veterans and their Families at Redfin
Today we thank veterans and honor the sacrifices our veterans and their families have made for our nation. Supporting Homes for Our Troops This week
Redfin & Fair Housing
Redfin complies with the Fair Housing Act, which clearly supports a business’s decisions to set the customers and areas it serves based on legitimate business reasons such as price.
RedfinNow Expands to Palm Springs
RedfinNow buys homes directly, giving homeowners liquidity, certainty and safety Homeowners in the Palm Springs area can now get a cash offer for their home
Pressing Pause on Facebook Ads
Inspired by the NAACP-led boycott Stop Hate for Profit, Redfin is limiting its advertising spending on Facebook in July.
Our Role in Fighting Racism
Read a letter from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman about our commitment to racial equality.