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Bob Colner
06/22/2022, 8:34 PMPrefect 2 question. What are blocks?
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Kevin Kho
06/22/2022, 8:39 PMGood question. Blocks are an abstraction for storage, but they will be an abstraction over other things that have not been announced yet
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Zanie
06/22/2022, 8:39 PMGreat question! We’re still on our way to a more formal announcement of everything blocks will do, but we’re beginning to use them as components because they’re so darn powerful 🙂
The shortest version: they store encrypted configuration for <something> in the database with easy lookup by name
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Jeff Hale
06/22/2022, 8:52 PMBlocks are gonna be rad! 😛arty-parrot:
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Matthias
06/22/2022, 9:04 PMDoes that mean that blocks will be an abstraction that the end user will never interact with directly?
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Zanie
06/22/2022, 9:06 PMNo, they'll be used directly and indirectly.
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Bob Colner
06/22/2022, 9:14 PMA mystery wrapped in an enigma. I’m cool with that
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