--- title: Trends in Integration in 2022 description: Trends in business integration for 2022 include serverless computing, competition for Kubernetes, decentralized environments, and changes to the ICC. image: https://blog.entiros.se/hubfs/Earth%20in%20a%20Building.jpg --- [** Back to Entiros ](https://www.entiros.se) Jan 21, 2022 | [Educational](https://blog.entiros.se/en/blog-media/topic/educational) | [Digital Transformation](https://blog.entiros.se/en/blog-media/topic/digital-transformation) | [Information Flows](https://blog.entiros.se/en/blog-media/topic/information-flows) # Trends in Integration in 2022 by [**Jenny Widén**](https://blog.entiros.se/en/blog-media/author/jenny-widén) [ ‹ Back to the listing ](https://blog.entiros.se/en/blog-media) Is it 2022 already?  2021 has been a productive year for us, and it has gone by so quickly!  So, what's next?  We're always keeping an eye on upcoming trends in business integration - keep reading for exciting information on what's coming up!   --- ## serverless for the masses There are plenty of initiatives underway to move serverless computing into new places in various parts of the IT sector.  While some companies are struggling to adapt to this change, several clear leaders have emerged: - Cloudflare Workers, with automatic scaling and a high-performance global network - CockroachDB, with a serverless database designed for speed and scale - Vercel, which provides an easy way to run serverless functions alongside your static websites. ![Earth in a Building](https://blog.entiros.se/hs-fs/hubfs/Earth%20in%20a%20Building.jpg?width=750&name=Earth%20in%20a%20Building.jpg) ## kubernetes becoming more accessible and facing more competition Kubernetes still sits on the container orchestrator throne for now, but it has some serious competition: - Nomad from HashiCorp, which lets you orchestrate containers plus a range of additional application executables - OpenNebula, a powerful and user-friendly open-source cloud and edge computing platform. ![john-schnobrich-FlPc9_VocJ4-unsplash](https://blog.entiros.se/hs-fs/hubfs/john-schnobrich-FlPc9_VocJ4-unsplash.jpg?width=800&name=john-schnobrich-FlPc9_VocJ4-unsplash.jpg) ## ephemeral, decentralized environments With serverless and Kubernetes gaining more popularity, many organizations are in a place where they need to adapt.  We'll need to rethink and restructure how we manage our stateful workloads and databases.  These kinds of environments put observability (logs, metrics, and tracing) in focus.![VR Goggles](https://blog.entiros.se/hs-fs/hubfs/VR%20Goggles.jpg?width=4288&name=VR%20Goggles.jpg) ## The new(ish) integration competency center All the 2o22 trends described above present new challenges for businesses when it comes to managing integrations.  You have probably already heard of, or may have even been a part of, an Integration Competency Center (ICC).  With more and more companies moving to a distributed model of their applications and services, the ICC as we know it faces some serious challenges.  It's no longer enough to support a central platform - the ICC also needs to be distributed to match the new trends in software and organizational structure. ![People in a Network](https://blog.entiros.se/hs-fs/hubfs/People%20in%20a%20Network.jpg?width=624&name=People%20in%20a%20Network.jpg) ---   Our mission at Entiros is to build the best integrations in the universe, click below to learn more! 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