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Why I Joined Redfin: Julie Granahan
Julie Granahan is a Redfin Premier agent in the greater Seattle area, specializing in West Seattle and Burien. She originally joined Redfin in 2016 and
Why I Joined Redfin: Rob Griffin
Rob Griffin is a Redfin Premier agent in the greater Seattle area, serving buyers and sellers in Snohomish County. He joined Redfin in June 2024
Why I Joined Redfin: Tracy Vasquez
Tracy Vasquez is a Redfin Premier agent serving customers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. She joined Redfin in August 2024 after building a successful
Redfin Welcomes December Agent Hires
Happy 2025, everyone! I love the promise of a new year and all of the possibilities it can bring—and that’s especially true now as we
Redfin Welcomes November Agent Hires
The holiday season is in full swing, and no one is feeling it more than our recruiting team! I want to take a moment to
Redfin Welcomes September and October Agent Hires
Happy holidays, everyone! As we transition into a new season, we’ve had the privilege of welcoming many new faces to Redfin. Please join me in
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
