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Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
Building a Single Page Application with React and Reflux
Learn how we built our map page with React and Reflux at Redfin!
Introducing Opportunity Score
San Jose, Milwaukee and Albuquerque rank highest in overall Opportunity Score.
Big Companies Versus Startups
Why I left a career in big software companies and took a plunge to work at a late-stage startup
New Construction in Seattle: State of the Market by Redfin Builder Services
The experts at Redfin Builder Services discussed how new construction sales are faring in Seattle’s red-hot market.
Redfin’s Chelsea Goyer Named a HousingWire 2016 Rising Star!
Award recognizes her as one of the most innovative young leaders in the real estate industry today.

How Hibernate’s Lazy Loading Nearly Killed Our Email
Using Hibernate’s FetchMode to improve performance in data-hungry applications