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Bob Colner

06/22/2022, 8:34 PM
Prefect 2 question. What are blocks?
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Kevin Kho

06/22/2022, 8:39 PM
Good 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 PM
Great 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 PM
Blocks are gonna be rad! 😛arty-parrot:
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Matthias

06/22/2022, 9:04 PM
Does 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 PM
No, they'll be used directly and indirectly.
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Bob Colner

06/22/2022, 9:14 PM
A mystery wrapped in an enigma. I’m cool with that
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