Generated locally from 104 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 December 2019 and analyzed 585 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 627 to 585 (-6.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 756 to 585 (-22.6%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 323 mentions (55.21% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Prometheus (+137 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Flask (-43 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-20191201-go.js and summary-20191201-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 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | +6 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 5 | +2 | 4 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 3 | -2 | 5 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 7 | +1 | 3 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 7 | 6 | -1 | 6 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 10 | 11 | +1 | 17 | +7 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 13 | +2 | 13 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 12 | 15 | +3 | 10 | -2 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 13 | 17 | +4 | 20 | +7 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 12 | -2 | 15 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 16 | +1 | 14 | -1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 16 | 10 | -6 | 11 | -5 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 14 | -3 | 12 | -5 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 18 | 20 | +2 | 26 | +8 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 19 | 24 | +5 | 25 | +6 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 20 | 21 | +1 | 24 | +4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prometheus | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, infrastructure | 5 | 111 | 1 | 248 | +137 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 106 | 1 | 216 | +110 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 12 | 69 | 4 | 147 | +78 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 10 | 80 | 4 | 141 | +61 |
| SQS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, messaging, aws, backend | 8 | 89 | 4 | 148 | +59 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 7 | 94 | 4 | 146 | +52 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 7 | 93 | 4 | 140 | +47 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 7 | 92 | 4 | 136 | +44 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 9 | 84 | 5 | 122 | +38 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 114 | 4 | 150 | +36 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 5 | 109 | 15 | 66 | -43 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 12 | 70 | 40 | 30 | -40 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 11 | 75 | 32 | 40 | -35 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 65 | 36 | 33 | -32 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 9 | 81 | 24 | 50 | -31 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 9 | 86 | 17 | 61 | -25 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 5 | 110 | 9 | 89 | -21 |
| Assembly | Technology | Language | language, systems, low-level | 5 | 102 | 10 | 82 | -20 |
| AWS Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 5 | 103 | 9 | 87 | -16 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 16 | 56 | 31 | 41 | -15 |
Target month: December 2019
Target postings: 585
Threads analyzed: 104