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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
Building the Redfin CMA Tool: An Inside Look at Real Estate Agent and Engineer Collaboration at Redfin
The Redfin CMA tool helps Redfin real estate agents provide home sellers with accurate pricing recommendations based on real-time buyer demand.
My Redfin Internship: Javier Sandoval
Javier describes his experience as a PM intern in Seattle.
How to Triple the Number of Women Appointed to Boards in Three Years
After The New York Times covered Twitter’s lack of gender diversity on its board in 2013, the ratio of women to men appointed to boards of public tech companies started to increase.
My Redfin Internship: Chengtao Ji
I learned about Redfin through its advertisement 7 years ago, which was chosen as listening material for my high school English class. I believe it
My Redfin Internship: Jake Magill
Jake describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Luis Mojica
I spent my summer as an engineering intern at Redfin, and it was a truly amazing experience. The culture at Redfin is unlike that of