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The Tale of the Tribe
In closing today’s $2-billion sale of Redfin to Rocket, Redfin has made a careful inventory of every asset to convey to our new home: the
Redfin Is Now Powered by Rocket®!
We’re excited to announce that Redfin is now officially part of Rocket Companies! By joining forces with America’s largest mortgage lender¹, Rocket Mortgage, we’re creating
Redfin and Thumbtack Help You Find Pros for Every Home Improvement Project
Summer is here, and it’s prime time for tackling your home improvement projects! We’ve teamed up with Thumbtack to help you breeze through your to-do
Say Hello to Our May Newfins!
April showers bring May flowers, and this season, Redfin is truly blooming—we’re thrilled to welcome more than 40 new real estate agents to our growing
1,000+ Redfin Agents and Teams Named Top Real Estate Professionals by RealTrends Verified
Today is a day of celebration at Redfin, because more than 1,000 Redfin agents—900+ individuals and 120+ teams—were named among the country’s best real estate
Redfin Replay: May Economics Q&A
Keeping up with economic news these days is no small feat, but Redfin’s economics team helps us make sense of it all. In a recent
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
