Robert Gay, Author at Redfin Real Estate News
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Robert Gay

Technical Lead on Platforms team @ Redfin. Likes Coffee and JavaScript.

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Thoughts on Transitioning to Universal JavaScript

(aka “Thoughts on Transitioning to isomorphic JavaScript”) For the past year, Redfin has been quietly converting our most heavily trafficked pages from being built with a client-side JavaScript (JS) templating engine to using an internal universal JS framework built on top of Node and React, called React Server. A universal JS framework (commonly referred to

Stealth Internship: Collections

Kelsey, a Product Manager (PM) intern here at Redfin over the summer, took a non-traditional approach to writing about her summer internship – she created a mock-up. We’ve been sitting on it for months while we published posts by other interns describing their impact, their pre-Redfin identity crises, past lives in biostatistics, and how there’s

CMSClassUnloadingEnabled at Redfin

tl;dr: If you’re using the CMS collector in Java 6 (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC) server-side, then you should really consider –XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled Today’s post starts out with a story. You might have heard a similar story before. It begins with a handful of servers in a datacenter that just…. pause sometimes. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or

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