Retail · Hybrid
Walmart
Walmart’s production architecture is hybrid and multi-cloud: public-cloud workloads run across Azure and Google Cloud, while core infrastructure and brokers remain within Walmart-controlled private cloud environments.[1][2][7][10][15] The platform is heavily event-driven and containerized, with Kafka as a central backbone and WCNP/Kubernetes used for consumer workloads across clouds.[1][4]
Foundation proximity: Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)
Foundational models & how they consume them
Off the LLM map — in-house non-LLM ML only.
Cloud & datastore
HybridApache KafkaSpark StreamingStormHDFSNoSQL databasesCassandraCompliance
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FAQ
Does Walmart use a foundational AI model?
Walmart relies on in-house, non-LLM machine learning at its core — off the foundational-LLM map.
What cloud does Walmart run on?
Walmart runs on Hybrid.
What database does Walmart use?
Walmart uses Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Storm, HDFS, NoSQL databases, Cassandra.
How close does Walmart run to the foundational model?
Walmart is off the foundational-LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML).
Sources
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