Generated locally from 82 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 February 2018 and analyzed 788 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 663 to 788 (18.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 940 to 788 (-16.2%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 481 mentions (61.04% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Vue (+129 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Scrum (-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-20180201-go.js and summary-20180201-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 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 3 | 6 | +3 | 2 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 2 | -2 | 5 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 4 | -1 | 7 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 5 | -1 | 3 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 8 | +1 | 6 | -1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 7 | -1 | 8 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 13 | +2 | 15 | +4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 11 | -1 | 10 | -2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 18 | +5 | 22 | +9 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 14 | 0 | 11 | -3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 12 | -3 | 14 | -1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 16 | 15 | -1 | 13 | -3 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 19 | +2 | 17 | 0 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 18 | 17 | -1 | 16 | -2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 19 | 20 | +1 | 19 | 0 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 20 | 23 | +3 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 21 | 57 | 3 | 186 | +129 |
| IaC | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, devops, infrastructure-as-code | 6 | 120 | 1 | 239 | +119 |
| Keras | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 7 | 112 | 2 | 208 | +96 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 20 | 58 | 4 | 144 | +86 |
| Jest | Technology | Testing | testing, frontend, javascript, react | 5 | 131 | 2 | 207 | +76 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 12 | 80 | 4 | 140 | +60 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 6 | 123 | 3 | 180 | +57 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 12 | 81 | 5 | 131 | +50 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 10 | 95 | 4 | 145 | +50 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 7 | 109 | 3 | 159 | +50 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 5 | 135 | 11 | 91 | -44 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 6 | 125 | 13 | 82 | -43 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 9 | 100 | 22 | 59 | -41 |
| ASP.NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 6 | 117 | 14 | 77 | -40 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 7 | 115 | 13 | 80 | -35 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 5 | 134 | 9 | 99 | -35 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 7 | 107 | 15 | 73 | -34 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 108 | 15 | 74 | -34 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 132 | 8 | 104 | -28 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 7 | 113 | 12 | 86 | -27 |
Target month: February 2018
Target postings: 788
Threads analyzed: 82