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A blockchain is a particular type of irreversible distributed ledger which combines aspects of both computation and data storage. Each new block which is added contains modifications to the state of the ledger that have been agreed upon by the consensus of the distributed nodes which run the network.
These ledgers allow for a large number of participants to permissionlessly but collaboratively manage extremely large amounts of value entirely through basic cryptoeconomic incentives.
While it is intellectually interesting to explore the theory and technology behind blockchains, it is not necessary to do this in order to build, test, and deploy apps. Similarly, you don't need to understand how fault-tolerant commodity compute clusters work inside AWS, GCP, or Azure in order to deploy an app to these clouds.
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