Generated locally from 46 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 February 2015 and analyzed 493 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 271 to 493 (81.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 328 to 493 (50.3%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 121 mentions (24.54% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Microservices (+294 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: nginx (-52 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-20150201-go.js and summary-20150201-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 2 | 4 | +2 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 2 | -1 | 5 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 9 | +3 | 9 | +3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 6 | -1 | 4 | -3 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 12 | +4 | 16 | +8 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 10 | +1 | 10 | +1 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 7 | -3 | 11 | +1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 11 | 8 | -3 | 8 | -3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 12 | 16 | +4 | 30 | +18 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 13 | 20 | +7 | 12 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 15 | +1 | 17 | +3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 15 | 11 | -4 | 6 | -9 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 16 | 13 | -3 | 37 | +21 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 17 | 17 | 0 | 15 | -2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 18 | 21 | +3 | 23 | +5 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 19 | 0 | 18 | -1 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 20 | 18 | -2 | 13 | -7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 7 | 79 | 0 | 373 | +294 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 11 | 62 | 1 | 186 | +124 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 7 | 82 | 1 | 187 | +105 |
| Storm | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering, data | 6 | 97 | 1 | 189 | +92 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 45 | 2 | 128 | +83 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 7 | 77 | 1 | 158 | +81 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 5 | 108 | 1 | 182 | +74 |
| Erlang | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, concurrent | 7 | 76 | 1 | 148 | +72 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 23 | 39 | 2 | 110 | +71 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 107 | 1 | 176 | +69 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 5 | 105 | 10 | 53 | -52 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 6 | 86 | 11 | 49 | -37 |
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 7 | 75 | 12 | 45 | -30 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 6 | 91 | 7 | 63 | -28 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 5 | 106 | 5 | 78 | -28 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 7 | 81 | 8 | 61 | -20 |
| Grunt | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, tooling | 6 | 92 | 6 | 72 | -20 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 6 | 99 | 5 | 81 | -18 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 14 | 51 | 18 | 34 | -17 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 6 | 85 | 6 | 68 | -17 |
Target month: February 2015
Target postings: 493
Threads analyzed: 46