Generated locally from 92 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
History chart
Selected terms
Category, family, tags, and latest month metrics.
| Term | Kind | Family | Tags | Latest count | Latest % | Latest rank | Total mentions |
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Geography
| Location | Weighted | Mentions | Companies | Top City | Work Mode Mix |
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This page was generated by the Go pipeline for December 2018 and analyzed 756 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 860 to 756 (-12.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 776 to 756 (-2.6%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 425 mentions (56.22% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: ECS (+228 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: TensorFlow (-40 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-20181201-go.js and summary-20181201-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 | 3 | +1 | 6 | +4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 3 | 4 | +1 | 5 | +2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 5 | +1 | 3 | -1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 2 | -3 | 2 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 7 | +1 | 4 | -2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 8 | +1 | 8 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 6 | -2 | 7 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 11 | 12 | +1 | 9 | -2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 12 | 15 | +3 | 15 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 14 | +1 | 12 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 11 | -3 | 13 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 13 | -2 | 14 | -1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 16 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 17 | 18 | +1 | 22 | +5 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 18 | 20 | +2 | 18 | 0 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 17 | -2 | 19 | 0 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 20 | 19 | -1 | 24 | +4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, container, aws, infrastructure | 8 | 94 | 0 | 322 | +228 |
| Serverless | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, architecture | 8 | 99 | 1 | 237 | +138 |
| Snowflake | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, analytics | 5 | 130 | 1 | 240 | +110 |
| AWS Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 9 | 87 | 1 | 196 | +109 |
| Kinesis | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, cloud, aws, data-engineering | 11 | 80 | 2 | 183 | +103 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 6 | 109 | 1 | 194 | +85 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 5 | 119 | 1 | 197 | +78 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 33 | 39 | 9 | 97 | +58 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 5 | 129 | 2 | 186 | +57 |
| Assembly | Technology | Language | language, systems, low-level | 10 | 82 | 4 | 133 | +51 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 5 | 131 | 10 | 91 | -40 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 104 | 16 | 66 | -38 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 8 | 91 | 22 | 54 | -37 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 6 | 112 | 13 | 76 | -36 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 10 | 85 | 23 | 53 | -32 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 6 | 115 | 12 | 85 | -30 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 101 | 13 | 74 | -27 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 5 | 121 | 9 | 94 | -27 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 8 | 97 | 14 | 71 | -26 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 11 | 81 | 22 | 56 | -25 |
Target month: December 2018
Target postings: 756
Threads analyzed: 92