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Scaling Agentic Coding

The shift from human-assisted AI to autonomous coding agents requires a paradigm shift in execution environments. At Drover, we are building the orchestration layer that allows millions of agents to compute simultaneously with the speed of serverless and the security of a dedicated kernel.

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Millisecond Cold Starts

Unikraft instances boot in under 10ms, enabling instantaneous response for short-lived agentic tasks.

security

MicroVM Security

True hardware-level isolation for every execution thread, eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' risk inherent in containers.

What is drover-code

drover-code is the command-line interface and daemon responsible for packaging local development contexts into high-performance unikernels. It bridges the gap between your local IDE and the massive compute capacity of the Unikraft Cloud.

$ drover deploy ./src --agent=gpt-4-turbo# Packaging unikernel... [Done 4ms] # Pushing to Unikraft Cloud... [Done 12ms] # Agent Active at: https://agent-x12.drover.cloud

The Challenges of Remote Execution

VMs

Too slow to boot and too heavy for short tasks. Massive resource overhead for simple agent scripts.

Containers

Shared kernel poses significant security risks. Vulnerable to escape attacks in multi-tenant environments.

Serverless

Limited control over the runtime environment. High latency for cold starts and limited state persistence.

The Unikraft Solution

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Minimal Attack Surface

By stripping the OS down to only the necessary syscalls for your application, Unikraft removes 90% of the standard Linux attack surface.

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Extreme Density

Run 100x more instances on the same hardware compared to traditional VMs. Perfect for scaling agent swarms.