Generated locally from 72 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 April 2017 and analyzed 711 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 786 to 711 (-9.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 593 to 711 (19.9%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 396 mentions (55.70% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Terraform (+395 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: CoffeeScript (-49 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-20170401-go.js and summary-20170401-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 3 | +1 | 6 | +4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 5 | +1 | 3 | -1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 5 | 2 | -3 | 2 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | -1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 9 | 0 | 7 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 14 | +4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 16 | +4 | 19 | +7 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 13 | 12 | -1 | 18 | +5 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 14 | 13 | -1 | 11 | -3 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 15 | 0 | 13 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 16 | 14 | -2 | 17 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 18 | +1 | 23 | +6 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 18 | 17 | -1 | 10 | -8 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 19 | 21 | +2 | 15 | -4 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 20 | 22 | +2 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraform | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, cloud, devops | 12 | 80 | 0 | 475 | +395 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 8 | 97 | 0 | 347 | +250 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 5 | 126 | 0 | 337 | +211 |
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 104 | 1 | 230 | +126 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 5 | 120 | 0 | 234 | +114 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 7 | 110 | 1 | 219 | +109 |
| Sidekiq | Technology | Backend | backend, job-queue, ruby, task-queue | 5 | 130 | 1 | 220 | +90 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 10 | 88 | 2 | 165 | +77 |
| SCSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 7 | 111 | 2 | 166 | +55 |
| OpenStack | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, private-cloud, iaas | 7 | 109 | 2 | 163 | +54 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 6 | 115 | 13 | 66 | -49 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 6 | 114 | 10 | 76 | -38 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 8 | 101 | 13 | 68 | -33 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 11 | 83 | 17 | 53 | -30 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 10 | 85 | 15 | 56 | -29 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 96 | 13 | 67 | -29 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 5 | 125 | 7 | 96 | -29 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 6 | 118 | 8 | 90 | -28 |
| ASP.NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 7 | 107 | 9 | 80 | -27 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 14 | 66 | 25 | 40 | -26 |
Target month: April 2017
Target postings: 711
Threads analyzed: 72