Ongoing from last cycle, maximum priority:

• finish activity 1 (#8979 (closed))
• finish activity 2 (#8819 (closed), #8970 (closed), #8848 (closed))

Stretch goals:

• discuss robustness and have some action items for it
• have integration with bitmask mail started
• implement streaming transfer for blobs
• have a hello world app that shows usage of blobs