It's data engineering immersion day (isn't every day at realtor.com?!). Colleagues across the company today in a hands-on lab and in modules focused on ingestion, hydration, exploration, and consumption of the data lake in AWS. AWS Data Migration service for batch data ingestion, AWS Glue for data catalog and run ETL on data lake, and Amazon Athena to query data lake and Amazon Quicksight for visualization are all on the menu.
Photos are one of the most important elements in the home shopping journey. Roughly 85% of our realtor.com audience interacts with the image gallery in our mobile apps and the images on our website receive millions of clicks per day. Our tech team continues to evolve the effectiveness of cloud-based image processing through the advancing capabilities of AWS. Read in our latest tech blog penned how we achieved this in a simpler, more manageable, and scalable way with faster processing time and lower infrastructure costs.
Happy Diwali! Throughout the years we have celebrated the occasion in our offices with food, festivities, and dance. While we can't be together in person this year, the Festival of Lights continues! To all of our employees, family and friends, we wish you a new year filled with many blessings.
We celebrate all U.S. Veterans and are incredibly grateful for those who serve and their families. We are proud of our longstanding partnership with Veterans United. Together, we’ve helped thousands of veterans buy new homes and this year is no different. For veterans looking to buy a home, enter to win! And please consider realtor.com for your next career.
We're hosting our very first virtual Tech Meetup on Nov 18th 2020 and would love for you to join us! Details and topics listed below:
Frequent team meetings allow us to take the time to connect, build an internal sense of community and learn from each other. Our manager of digital sales, Liz Larkin, shares some insight on what keeps our sales team engaged and successful. Read more about life inside realtor.com in this Built In Austin feature.
Join us for our upcoming realtor.com virtual tech meetup on Nov. 18! Engineers Jun Li and David Kong will present on image-based search, client-side machine learning, and Simar Arora and Tom Koufakis will discuss circuit breaker implementation for GraphQL. Rich presentation, lively discussion and an evening of networking Students, professionals, and learners all welcome!
The realtor.com engineering team uses machine learning to build personalized real estate recommendations, search, and smart tagging services. Read about how feature engineering plays an important role in high-quality customer engagement and monetization in our most recent tech blog.
We voted, have you? Let us see that voting pride! The logistics of voting in this year's U.S. election may be more complicated due to the pandemic, but there is no obstacle too great to prevent getting every vote in! All employees at realtor.com may take working time off with pay to vote, so let's see those stickers!
A fundamental belief at realtor.com is that a consummate consumer experience includes the guidance of a real estate professional. Read more from our Chief Revenue Officer, Ben Rubenstein.
