Generated locally from 100 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 August 2019 and analyzed 727 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 758 to 727 (-4.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 867 to 727 (-16.1%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 411 mentions (56.53% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: GIS (+109 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: RabbitMQ (-64 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-20190801-go.js and summary-20190801-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 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | +6 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | -2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 8 | +1 | 5 | -2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 7 | -1 | 7 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 11 | +1 | 11 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 10 | -1 | 14 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 14 | +2 | 10 | -2 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 12 | -1 | 21 | +8 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 13 | -1 | 12 | -2 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 15 | 19 | +4 | 30 | +15 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 17 | 18 | +1 | 19 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 18 | 15 | -3 | 13 | -5 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 20 | +1 | 16 | -3 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 20 | 23 | +3 | 26 | +6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIS | Technology | Data Engineering | geospatial, data, analytics, domain | 5 | 126 | 1 | 235 | +109 |
| Embedded Systems | Technology | Infrastructure | embedded, systems, hardware, iot | 7 | 103 | 2 | 190 | +87 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 112 | 2 | 188 | +76 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 9 | 90 | 3 | 165 | +75 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 5 | 132 | 2 | 206 | +74 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 123 | 2 | 186 | +63 |
| Selenium | Technology | Testing | testing, automation, frontend, browser | 6 | 115 | 3 | 177 | +62 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 9 | 93 | 5 | 140 | +47 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 9 | 92 | 5 | 138 | +46 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 8 | 98 | 5 | 144 | +46 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 5 | 131 | 19 | 67 | -64 |
| Serverless | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, architecture | 6 | 116 | 14 | 77 | -39 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 7 | 104 | 19 | 66 | -38 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 119 | 12 | 81 | -38 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 5 | 130 | 11 | 92 | -38 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 7 | 105 | 13 | 79 | -26 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 113 | 11 | 89 | -24 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 20 | 61 | 38 | 40 | -21 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 7 | 106 | 12 | 85 | -21 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 7 | 107 | 12 | 87 | -20 |
Target month: August 2019
Target postings: 727
Threads analyzed: 100