Generated locally from 49 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Monday, April 27, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
Selected terms
Category, family, tags, and latest month metrics.
| Term | Kind | Family | Tags | Latest count | Latest % | Latest rank | Total mentions |
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This page was generated by the Go pipeline for May 2015 and analyzed 667 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 746 to 667 (-10.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 407 to 667 (63.9%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 183 mentions (27.44% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Microservices (+304 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: EC2 (-35 rank positions).
This Go-generated page reuses the frontend charting assets, but renders from Go templates and a Go-generated dataset.
Artifacts for this run: data-20150501-go.js and summary-20150501-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 3 | -1 | 7 | +3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 9 | +3 | 10 | +4 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | +1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 8 | 12 | +4 | 6 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 9 | 6 | -3 | 3 | -6 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 10 | 8 | -2 | 9 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | +1 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 10 | -2 | 13 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 15 | +2 | 11 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 15 | 13 | -2 | 19 | +4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 16 | 0 | 23 | +7 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 18 | +1 | 24 | +7 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 18 | 20 | +2 | 18 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 31 | +12 | 85 | +66 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 20 | 29 | +9 | 29 | +9 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 10 | 73 | 0 | 377 | +304 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 5 | 110 | 0 | 413 | +303 |
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 5 | 108 | 0 | 374 | +266 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 6 | 94 | 0 | 305 | +211 |
| Swift | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 10 | 76 | 1 | 193 | +117 |
| MATLAB | Technology | Language | language, data, ml, math | 5 | 107 | 1 | 183 | +76 |
| Lua | Technology | Language | language, scripting, embedded, gaming | 5 | 106 | 1 | 180 | +74 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 5 | 103 | 1 | 170 | +67 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 52 | 19 | 5 | 85 | +66 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 11 | 69 | 2 | 133 | +64 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 92 | 11 | 57 | -35 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 5 | 113 | 6 | 79 | -34 |
| JSON | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 5 | 105 | 6 | 76 | -29 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 100 | 7 | 72 | -28 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 13 | 62 | 19 | 42 | -20 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 9 | 80 | 10 | 60 | -20 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 6 | 97 | 6 | 77 | -20 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 6 | 98 | 6 | 78 | -20 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 71 | 12 | 55 | -16 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 9 | 79 | 9 | 63 | -16 |
Target month: May 2015
Target postings: 667
Threads analyzed: 49