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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 Direct Expands to Northern Virginia
With Redfin Direct, unrepresented homebuyers can make their offer more competitive by saving the seller thousands of dollars in buyer’s agent commission fees.
Redfin Opens Dallas Engineering Hub
Newly opened Frisco office is home to brokerage, mortgage, title and engineering teams
Redfin and Zillow Agree on Listing Attribution for Syndication in Several Markets
Redfin listings now appear on Zillow.com in Seattle, Charlotte, Des Moines and Nashville.
Exclusive Redfin and RE/MAX Partnership Ends
RE/MAX withdrew today from its corporate partnership with Redfin. Redfin has the utmost respect for RE/MAX as a company, for its agents and leaders. RE/MAX
The Only Agent with a Bright Future is the One Who Puts the Customer First
The following letter was sent from Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, to all our employees, including our agents, on Wednesday May 8, 2019.
Back to the Future: The Buy-It Button Comes to Redfin.com
Redfin Direct is a new way to buy homes listed by Redfin without an agent