Generated locally from 97 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 May 2019 and analyzed 817 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 741 to 817 (10.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 972 to 817 (-15.9%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 484 mentions (59.24% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Prometheus (+95 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Ember (-51 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-20190501-go.js and summary-20190501-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 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 6 | +3 | 3 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 5 | +1 | 4 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 4 | -1 | 6 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 3 | -3 | 8 | +2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 10 | 11 | +1 | 13 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 10 | -1 | 11 | 0 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 12 | 16 | +4 | 17 | +5 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 12 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 14 | 0 | 15 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 15 | 12 | -3 | 10 | -5 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 16 | 15 | -1 | 19 | +3 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 18 | 24 | +6 | 38 | +20 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 18 | -1 | 20 | +1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 20 | 20 | 0 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prometheus | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, infrastructure | 6 | 121 | 2 | 216 | +95 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 13 | 79 | 4 | 159 | +80 |
| Embedded Systems | Technology | Infrastructure | embedded, systems, hardware, iot | 6 | 117 | 2 | 196 | +79 |
| F# | Technology | Language | language, functional, dotnet, microsoft | 5 | 132 | 2 | 198 | +66 |
| Celery | Technology | Backend | backend, python, task-queue, distributed | 5 | 129 | 2 | 188 | +59 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 7 | 107 | 4 | 156 | +49 |
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 7 | 106 | 4 | 152 | +46 |
| Akka | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, jvm, actor-model | 5 | 126 | 3 | 170 | +44 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 6 | 122 | 4 | 165 | +43 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 6 | 124 | 4 | 166 | +42 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 131 | 14 | 80 | -51 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 6 | 123 | 13 | 85 | -38 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 14 | 73 | 37 | 40 | -33 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 128 | 11 | 97 | -31 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 13 | 78 | 30 | 51 | -27 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 11 | 88 | 21 | 66 | -22 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 9 | 95 | 16 | 74 | -21 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 8 | 101 | 14 | 81 | -20 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 13 | 75 | 26 | 57 | -18 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 11 | 87 | 16 | 69 | -18 |
Target month: May 2019
Target postings: 817
Threads analyzed: 97