Generated locally from 89 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
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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 September 2018 and analyzed 691 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 867 to 691 (-20.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 779 to 691 (-11.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 408 mentions (59.04% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Airflow (+168 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Hadoop (-66 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-20180901-go.js and summary-20180901-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| 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 | 6 | +4 | 2 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 2 | -1 | 7 | +4 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 3 | -1 | 6 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 6 | 4 | -2 | 3 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | -3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 9 | 10 | +1 | 13 | +4 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 9 | -1 | 9 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 13 | +2 | 12 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 14 | +2 | 11 | -1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 13 | 12 | -1 | 10 | -3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 11 | -3 | 15 | +1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 15 | 21 | +6 | 21 | +6 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 15 | -1 | 18 | +2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 18 | +1 | 14 | -3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 18 | 17 | -1 | 19 | +1 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 16 | -3 | 16 | -3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 20 | 20 | 0 | 17 | -3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 6 | 102 | 0 | 270 | +168 |
| ECS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, container, aws, infrastructure | 7 | 94 | 1 | 219 | +125 |
| Spring Boot | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 5 | 134 | 1 | 255 | +121 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 5 | 130 | 1 | 237 | +107 |
| Elm | Technology | Language | language, frontend, functional, javascript | 9 | 87 | 2 | 184 | +97 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 7 | 96 | 2 | 187 | +91 |
| Oracle | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, relational | 6 | 110 | 2 | 199 | +89 |
| Serverless | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, architecture | 9 | 90 | 3 | 166 | +76 |
| Assembly | Technology | Language | language, systems, low-level | 6 | 105 | 2 | 177 | +72 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 6 | 104 | 2 | 175 | +71 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 5 | 128 | 18 | 62 | -66 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 5 | 124 | 15 | 70 | -54 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 6 | 116 | 16 | 68 | -48 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 6 | 114 | 14 | 73 | -41 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 9 | 91 | 21 | 56 | -35 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 123 | 11 | 88 | -35 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 95 | 17 | 64 | -31 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 18 | 59 | 41 | 32 | -27 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 6 | 107 | 12 | 82 | -25 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 13 | 73 | 25 | 49 | -24 |
Target month: September 2018
Target postings: 691
Threads analyzed: 89