Generated locally from 80 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 December 2017 and analyzed 776 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 904 to 776 (-14.2%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 633 to 776 (22.6%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 409 mentions (52.71% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Zookeeper (+380 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Distributed Systems (-32 rank positions).
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Artifacts for this run: data-20171201-go.js and summary-20171201-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 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 2 | 5 | +3 | 7 | +5 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 2 | -2 | 2 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 6 | +1 | 4 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 4 | -2 | 6 | 0 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 8 | +1 | 8 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 7 | -1 | 5 | -3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 12 | +1 | 20 | +9 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 11 | -1 | 12 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 14 | +1 | 13 | 0 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 16 | +2 | 18 | +4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 15 | 13 | -2 | 11 | -4 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 17 | 15 | -2 | 14 | -3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 18 | 18 | 0 | 24 | +6 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 19 | 23 | +4 | 22 | +3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 20 | 19 | -1 | 16 | -4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zookeeper | Technology | Infrastructure | distributed, infrastructure, coordination, data | 5 | 133 | 0 | 513 | +380 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 9 | 99 | 0 | 368 | +269 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 6 | 119 | 0 | 340 | +221 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 10 | 91 | 1 | 226 | +135 |
| Prometheus | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, infrastructure | 6 | 122 | 1 | 223 | +101 |
| Sidekiq | Technology | Backend | backend, job-queue, ruby, task-queue | 5 | 132 | 1 | 229 | +97 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 7 | 109 | 1 | 198 | +89 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 5 | 130 | 1 | 205 | +75 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 8 | 104 | 2 | 178 | +74 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 9 | 95 | 2 | 168 | +73 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 13 | 77 | 25 | 45 | -32 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 9 | 97 | 15 | 65 | -32 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 101 | 13 | 69 | -32 |
| Akka | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, jvm, actor-model | 5 | 127 | 7 | 96 | -31 |
| Swift | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 14 | 74 | 23 | 49 | -25 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 9 | 93 | 13 | 68 | -25 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 7 | 111 | 9 | 88 | -23 |
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 7 | 112 | 9 | 89 | -23 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 13 | 78 | 19 | 56 | -22 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 7 | 116 | 8 | 95 | -21 |
Target month: December 2017
Target postings: 776
Threads analyzed: 80