Generated locally from 166 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 2025 and analyzed 400 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 277 to 400 (44.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 342 to 400 (17.0%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 223 mentions (55.75% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Microservices (+327 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Java (-50 rank positions).
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Artifacts for this run: data-20250201-go.js and summary-20250201-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 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 0 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 3 | 2 | -1 | 5 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 10 | +4 | 6 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 8 | +1 | 7 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 6 | -2 | 8 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 10 | 7 | -3 | 11 | +1 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 13 | +1 | 10 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 12 | -1 | 13 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 14 | 14 | 0 | 15 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 15 | 0 | 18 | +3 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 16 | 0 | 14 | -2 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 17 | 19 | +2 | 17 | 0 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 18 | 18 | 0 | 16 | -2 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 19 | 20 | +1 | 25 | +6 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 20 | 24 | +4 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 6 | 70 | 0 | 397 | +327 |
| Grafana | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, visualization | 5 | 78 | 1 | 182 | +104 |
| AI Agents | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 14 | 35 | 3 | 95 | +60 |
| Fintech | Domain | Industry | industry, finance, domain, technology | 12 | 43 | 3 | 101 | +58 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 33 | 4 | 86 | +53 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 14 | 40 | 4 | 90 | +50 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 46 | 3 | 96 | +50 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 5 | 80 | 2 | 130 | +50 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 5 | 74 | 2 | 119 | +45 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 75 | 2 | 120 | +45 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 5 | 79 | 15 | 29 | -50 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 5 | 84 | 9 | 46 | -38 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 8 | 56 | 21 | 22 | -34 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 6 | 67 | 12 | 39 | -28 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 5 | 76 | 7 | 52 | -24 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 9 | 51 | 14 | 33 | -18 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 5 | 83 | 6 | 65 | -18 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 14 | 36 | 23 | 19 | -17 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 7 | 66 | 8 | 50 | -16 |
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 48 | 14 | 34 | -14 |
Target month: February 2025
Target postings: 400
Threads analyzed: 166