Generated locally from 94 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 February 2019 and analyzed 692 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 766 to 692 (-9.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 788 to 692 (-12.2%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 415 mentions (59.97% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Maven (+266 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Web Services (-65 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-20190201-go.js and summary-20190201-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 | 2 | 0 | 6 | +4 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | +2 |
| 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 | 4 | -1 | 4 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 6 | 7 | +1 | 7 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 8 | +1 | 8 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 8 | 6 | -2 | 3 | -5 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 10 | 10 | 0 | 13 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 13 | +2 | 11 | 0 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 12 | 16 | +4 | 16 | +4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 12 | -1 | 12 | -1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 14 | 11 | -3 | 9 | -5 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 15 | 18 | +3 | 20 | +5 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 16 | 15 | -1 | 18 | +2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 18 | 19 | +1 | 43 | +25 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 19 | 20 | +1 | 15 | -4 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 20 | 14 | -6 | 22 | +2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, build, java, build-tool | 5 | 130 | 0 | 396 | +266 |
| WebAssembly | Technology | Frontend | webassembly, frontend, systems, web | 6 | 120 | 1 | 260 | +140 |
| ECS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, container, aws, infrastructure | 9 | 93 | 1 | 214 | +121 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 10 | 88 | 2 | 173 | +85 |
| Kinesis | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, cloud, aws, data-engineering | 8 | 102 | 2 | 187 | +85 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 6 | 119 | 2 | 197 | +78 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 6 | 121 | 2 | 199 | +78 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 8 | 100 | 2 | 171 | +71 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 9 | 95 | 4 | 148 | +53 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 12 | 81 | 5 | 131 | +50 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 133 | 17 | 68 | -65 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 6 | 115 | 13 | 77 | -38 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 5 | 128 | 10 | 94 | -34 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 9 | 91 | 18 | 63 | -28 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 6 | 118 | 11 | 91 | -27 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 7 | 106 | 12 | 80 | -26 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 5 | 125 | 9 | 99 | -26 |
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 19 | 60 | 39 | 37 | -23 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 17 | 66 | 31 | 46 | -20 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 94 | 14 | 74 | -20 |
Target month: February 2019
Target postings: 692
Threads analyzed: 94