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
Redfin Now Has Real Estate Agents in El Paso, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley
Redfin now has real estate agents in El Paso, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley! People in these parts of Texas also now have access to Redfin’s online and mobile tools, which they can use to search for every home for sale in these cities.
How Redfin Pays Women and Men
To narrow the gender gap, some employers are releasing data on how we pay employees. Redfin has now reached a size where we have a meaningful number of employees in similar roles, and so today we are releasing data on the relative pay of women and men at our company.
Redfin Agents have Arrived in Reno!
Redfin has arrived in the biggest little city! People can work with a local Redfin real estate agent in Reno to buy and sell homes
Real Estate Just Got Faster: Introducing Book It Now for On-Demand Home Tours
Now you can schedule a tour with a couple of clicks.
Where Will All the Unicorns Go?
What happens when one company after another raises private capital at a multi-billion dollar valuation? No one in Silicon Valley really knows, though we ask ourselves that question every day.
What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town…
How many technology workers does it take to increase home prices? Redfin dug into the data to find out.
