Generated locally from 126 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 October 2021 and analyzed 771 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 897 to 771 (-14.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 710 to 771 (8.6%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 581 mentions (75.36% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: SQL Server (+331 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Heroku (-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-20211001-go.js and summary-20211001-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 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 5 | +1 | 5 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 5 | 6 | +1 | 7 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 3 | -3 | 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 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 9 | -1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 14 | +2 | 14 | +2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 12 | -1 | 11 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 14 | 13 | -1 | 13 | -1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 16 | +1 | 15 | 0 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 16 | 18 | +2 | 18 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 17 | 19 | +2 | 19 | +2 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 18 | 17 | -1 | 20 | +2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 19 | 15 | -4 | 16 | -3 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 20 | 23 | +3 | 17 | -3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 5 | 135 | 0 | 466 | +331 |
| NextJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 7 | 103 | 0 | 417 | +314 |
| Tailwind | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 6 | 117 | 1 | 266 | +149 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 11 | 81 | 2 | 189 | +108 |
| web3 | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 8 | 98 | 2 | 199 | +101 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 8 | 92 | 2 | 172 | +80 |
| WebAssembly | Technology | Frontend | webassembly, frontend, systems, web | 11 | 83 | 3 | 162 | +79 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 6 | 115 | 2 | 188 | +73 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 6 | 106 | 2 | 165 | +59 |
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 20 | 56 | 5 | 113 | +57 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 5 | 128 | 10 | 84 | -44 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 5 | 134 | 7 | 95 | -39 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 12 | 74 | 25 | 42 | -32 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 5 | 119 | 8 | 88 | -31 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 6 | 107 | 12 | 77 | -30 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 14 | 70 | 26 | 41 | -29 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 11 | 78 | 21 | 50 | -28 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 5 | 129 | 6 | 102 | -27 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 9 | 87 | 15 | 62 | -25 |
| AWS Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 5 | 122 | 6 | 97 | -25 |
Target month: October 2021
Target postings: 771
Threads analyzed: 126