Generated locally from 87 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 July 2018 and analyzed 734 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 763 to 734 (-3.8%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 756 to 734 (-2.9%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 416 mentions (56.68% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Kinesis (+252 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Web Services (-44 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-20180701-go.js and summary-20180701-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 | 3 | +1 | 7 | +5 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 2 | -1 | 4 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 5 | +1 | 2 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 8 | +3 | 3 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 8 | 4 | -4 | 5 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 11 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 10 | 13 | +3 | 10 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 11 | 0 | 16 | +5 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 12 | 10 | -2 | 9 | -3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 13 | 15 | +2 | 17 | +4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 12 | -2 | 12 | -2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 19 | +4 | 15 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 16 | 22 | +6 | 23 | +7 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 17 | 14 | -3 | 20 | +3 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 18 | 21 | +3 | 24 | +6 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 19 | 16 | -3 | 21 | +2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 20 | 17 | -3 | 14 | -6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinesis | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, cloud, aws, data-engineering | 6 | 118 | 0 | 370 | +252 |
| Jest | Technology | Testing | testing, frontend, javascript, react | 5 | 132 | 0 | 363 | +231 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 8 | 98 | 2 | 177 | +79 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 11 | 85 | 2 | 157 | +72 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 120 | 2 | 181 | +61 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 6 | 121 | 2 | 182 | +61 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 13 | 79 | 4 | 139 | +60 |
| Elm | Technology | Language | language, frontend, functional, javascript | 7 | 107 | 2 | 164 | +57 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 21 | 57 | 6 | 111 | +54 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 99 | 3 | 151 | +52 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 6 | 123 | 11 | 79 | -44 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 6 | 117 | 11 | 75 | -42 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 6 | 115 | 11 | 74 | -41 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 8 | 100 | 18 | 60 | -40 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 7 | 109 | 14 | 69 | -40 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 6 | 113 | 10 | 80 | -33 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 108 | 11 | 76 | -32 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 5 | 129 | 7 | 97 | -32 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 15 | 70 | 26 | 44 | -26 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 11 | 86 | 15 | 64 | -22 |
Target month: July 2018
Target postings: 734
Threads analyzed: 87