Zero-downtime canister upgrades

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Currently, the official advise is to always stop your canisters before upgrading them. This advise is well justified, but the result is quite unsatisfactory, and unbecoming of a service hosting platform that wants to attract “real” applications.

So in this blog post I explore how to write canisters that can be safely upgraded without stopping, both now and once the System API has improved:

https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/789-Zero-downtime_upgrades_of_Internet_Computer_canisters

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Are there any plans of using something like “validUntil” or other timestamp-based mechanism where the message is dropped by the replica if it comes too late?

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