In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
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The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But better than the Atlanta website is the team behind it, starting with the guy we hired to run our Atlanta business, James Marks. From the moment James explained to us that
We Blew Up the Call Center (And We Launched Atlanta) Read More »
With Google as our mapping partner, we’re able to give you overhead views and street views for all the homes for sale on our site (and for sold homes too). Today, Google announced that it’s also making a new type of imagery available called perspective imagery, starting with San Jose and San Diego. Perspective imagery
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Big news! We just announced a $10-million round of financing led by Greylock Partners’ James Slavet and his colleague David Thacker. Redfin’s group of existing investors — Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, DFJ, The Hillman Company — also pitched in on the round. We couldn’t be happier about the team behind us. Like all the
Greylock Leads a $10 Million Investment in Redfin Read More »
First of all, a warning. If you’re browsing this post in a car, or while you’re listening to someone blather away on the phone, pull over, mute the line, buckle up, REMAIN CALM. We’ve got some good stuff to tell you about. Really good stuff. Sometime in the wee hours of the night last night,
There's Going to Be a Whole Lot of Rubber-Necking Going On… Read More »
We can’t believe it, after only being out six weeks, traffic from our iPhone App is 10% of our site traffic on the weekends. Do that many people really have iPhones? 🙂 Digging into the numbers, for the first four weekends after we launched it, iPhone traffic was a little under 5% of our website
On Weekends iPhone Traffic is 10% of Site Traffic Read More »
