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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
Price Your Home Like an Agent Would
Today Redfin launched the Home Value Tool, a new online feature that helps homeowners estimate the value of their home. The tool is the vastly
New Species of Shark Discovered in Puget Sound: Redfin Adopts it as Company Mascot
Today Redfin announced it has adopted a newly discovered species of shark – the Pacific Redfin Shark – as its new mascot. On March 28
Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 5
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed five Redfin Agents to
Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 4
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to
Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 3
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to
Careers: What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Agent? Part 2
What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to
