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The Best Blog Post I've Read in a Long Time

May 13, 2010

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

May 8, 2010

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

May 7, 2010

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

May 4, 2010

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

May 4, 2010

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

May 1, 2010

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

My Unconventional Journey to Redfin

February 15, 2017

From Scientist to Software Developer.

How Accurate is the Redfin Estimate?

February 2, 2017

In a new study, the Redfin Estimate more accurately predicted the value of thousands of homes for sale than estimates from the other leading providers of public home-value estimates.