How Walmart Drives Operational Excellence with Open Source Innovation

Walmart Global Tech17 Jun, 2025Technology

Walmart runs a massive network over 5 million connected devices across 10,500+ stores, fulfillment, and distribution centers. Managing such scale with diverse vendor systems is complex and costly. To simplify, Walmart embraced open-source platforms like SONiC (a Linux-based network OS) and L3AF (an eBPF orchestration and observability tool). These solutions allow the use of standardized, white-box hardware managed under one common OS, ensuring consistent performance, simplified automation, and improved reliability.