Generated locally from 123 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 2021 and analyzed 879 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 966 to 879 (-9.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 539 to 879 (63.1%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 635 mentions (72.24% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: TimescaleDB (+331 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Big Data (-63 rank positions).
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Artifacts for this run: data-20210701-go.js and summary-20210701-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | -5 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 | +2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 12 | +1 | 10 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 11 | -1 | 14 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 14 | +1 | 11 | -2 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 14 | 13 | -1 | 15 | +1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 15 | 0 | 21 | +6 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 17 | +1 | 17 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 17 | 20 | +3 | 13 | -4 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 18 | 16 | -2 | 30 | +12 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 19 | 18 | -1 | 16 | -3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 20 | 21 | +1 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TimescaleDB | Technology | Database | database, time-series, postgresql, storage | 5 | 140 | 0 | 471 | +331 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 6 | 120 | 0 | 447 | +327 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 5 | 137 | 0 | 454 | +317 |
| IaC | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, devops, infrastructure-as-code | 8 | 97 | 0 | 363 | +266 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 11 | 90 | 1 | 232 | +142 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 11 | 89 | 1 | 230 | +141 |
| Platform Engineering | Technology | Platform Engineering | platform-engineering, infrastructure, developer-platform, devops | 8 | 101 | 1 | 229 | +128 |
| Snowflake | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, analytics | 6 | 121 | 1 | 235 | +114 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 5 | 141 | 1 | 245 | +104 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 142 | 1 | 246 | +104 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 5 | 126 | 11 | 63 | -63 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 14 | 79 | 24 | 35 | -44 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 8 | 104 | 12 | 61 | -43 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 127 | 6 | 91 | -36 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 13 | 80 | 15 | 52 | -28 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 13 | 82 | 14 | 54 | -28 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 7 | 107 | 8 | 80 | -27 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 87 | 11 | 62 | -25 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 16 | 71 | 16 | 48 | -23 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 6 | 116 | 6 | 93 | -23 |
Target month: July 2021
Target postings: 879
Threads analyzed: 123