After a very successful night of hosting the Seattle Scalability Meetup few weeks back, we decided to host another one! This time, we hosted the Seattle JS Meetup. Just like last time, we had an incredible turnout from the Seattle community, with more than 100(!!) attendees sitting in our newly renovated office. This time, we started off… Read More
Redfin Engineering had an incredible time hosting the Seattle Scalability Meetup earlier this week. In the past, we’ve had celebrity guest speakers give talks in our San Francisco office, but we’ve just never been able to make it happen in Seattle before. (If you’re curious, see Ryan Dahl on node.js, Alex Payne on how and why… Read More
Ryan Dahl, the creator of a high-performing web server written in JavaScript, came by Redfin’s San Francisco office to talk about his creation, Node.JS. It was a very funny, thoughtful talk, particularly because Ryan is somehow both opinionated and careful with the truth. He is the latest in a long line of speakers for Engineer-to-Engineer,… Read More
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using Hadoop saved the day at Facebook. Speaking to an audience of approximately thirty Hadoop experts and enthusiasts hailing from all around the Bay Area, the Valley, and even Seattle, he… Read More
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 Payne to talk about how Twitter uses Scala, a programming language that combines traits of object-oriented languages and functional languages with an eye toward supporting concurrency better in large-scale software…. Read More