One of the major perks of working on the engineering team at Redfin is the privilege to take on side projects in addition to the day-to-day assignments. We call it our “quarterly objectives,” where each quarter, engineers or product managers are allowed to dedicate a portion of their time to projects that they’re passionate about…. Read More
Improving performance is awesome. As a web developer, there is a unique satisfaction knowing a page now loads in half the time, or spends less time accessing databases. However, improving a page takes time; time that could have been spent making new features or wowing the user in more obvious ways. In addition, optimizing pages… Read More
Defining data feeds that need to be consumed elsewhere might seem like a “solved” problem, simply because there are so many data feeds and standards out there in the wild. But, as the story below demonstrates, there are a lot of subtleties that need to be considered when determining how to represent each piece of… Read More