Generated locally from 102 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 October 2019 and analyzed 719 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 607 to 719 (18.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 894 to 719 (-19.6%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 406 mentions (56.47% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Spring Boot (+116 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Redshift (-47 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-20191001-go.js and summary-20191001-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 | 3 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | +5 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 5 | +1 | 7 | +3 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 4 | -1 | 2 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 | -2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 10 | 14 | +4 | 12 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 11 | 12 | +1 | 9 | -2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 11 | -1 | 13 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 13 | 17 | +4 | 11 | -2 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 14 | 15 | +1 | 18 | +4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 13 | -2 | 14 | -1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 10 | -6 | 15 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 17 | 21 | +4 | 25 | +8 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 18 | 16 | -2 | 32 | +14 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 20 | +1 | 17 | -2 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 20 | 18 | -2 | 24 | +4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Boot | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 9 | 95 | 2 | 211 | +116 |
| Akka | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, jvm, actor-model | 6 | 109 | 1 | 217 | +108 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 5 | 127 | 2 | 208 | +81 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 10 | 87 | 5 | 141 | +54 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 6 | 114 | 3 | 168 | +54 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 12 | 80 | 6 | 128 | +48 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 8 | 97 | 5 | 135 | +38 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 71 | 8 | 106 | +35 |
| ClojureScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, functional, javascript | 6 | 113 | 4 | 148 | +35 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 26 | 46 | 16 | 77 | +31 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 5 | 128 | 14 | 81 | -47 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 5 | 126 | 11 | 90 | -36 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 13 | 76 | 35 | 46 | -30 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 9 | 91 | 21 | 61 | -30 |
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 9 | 94 | 20 | 68 | -26 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 7 | 102 | 16 | 76 | -26 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 11 | 84 | 22 | 59 | -25 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 5 | 119 | 9 | 95 | -24 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 12 | 78 | 24 | 56 | -22 |
| Jest | Technology | Testing | testing, frontend, javascript, react | 5 | 124 | 8 | 102 | -22 |
Target month: October 2019
Target postings: 719
Threads analyzed: 102