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Since a few days, we’ve been able to get our hands on one of the first Apple Silicon M1 devices: the new Mac mini 2020 edition. While in our analysis article last week we had based our numbers on the A14, this time around we’ve measured the real performance on the actual new higher-power design. We haven’t had much time, but we’ll be bringing you the key datapoints relevant to the new Apple Silicon M1.

Nginx is a lightweight, open-source, robust, high-performance HTTP server and a reverse proxy. It’s the most popular web server, beating Apache and IIS.

Nginx is recognized for its stability, performance, rich feature set, easy configuration, and low resource consumption.

While the default configurations are favoured by most people, they are not secure enough, and extra tweaks are needed to reinforce the web server.

Here, we will look into some actions you can take to strengthen and improve Nginx server security.

So, what does it mean to do one thing and do it well? Well, awk has been a staple of any UNIX diet since the late 1970s. I think it's a lovely little tool which I use even for rather mundane tasks. It's certainly changed a bit over the years, but the core concept of the language remains the same. Still, it's a complete programming language and can do a lot more than a simple, single-purpose command.

The cut command is slightly newer, but like awk, it's a part of the POSIX standard. It can also hardly be considered to have suffered much feature creep: it's got a rather stringent set of parameters and really does just one thing, which is cutting a smaller piece of text out of a larger piece of text.

The question is of course, does the UNIX philosophy still hold up? Is it always better to have one small program doing one thing well, as opposed to a slightly bigger program doing many things? Let's examine this by performing a simple task with two slightly different twists.