In 2022, digital transformation is expected to be driven by several emerging trends, including composable business strategies, APIOps, multi-cloud adoption, and hyperautomation, which leverage advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to enhance process automation. Composable businesses, which are agile and modular, will become essential, while enterprises will increasingly adopt APIOps to automate API development tasks and multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in. APIs will be pivotal in hyperautomation, but some cloud providers may limit openness by offering proprietary features, potentially hindering data portability. The emergence of API communities aims to enhance API reuse, and embedding API management tools into infrastructure software will facilitate discovery and orchestration. As Kubernetes proliferates, improved management tools will be crucial, and enterprises will address HR challenges by embracing diverse programming languages and low-code/no-code solutions. Open Policy Agent is set to become a standard for cloud policy management, and the shift from monolithic load balancing to distributed models like ZeroLB will gain momentum, aligning with the multi-cloud, microservices, and containerization trends. Kong's service connectivity platform supports these trends by optimizing API management and development processes across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments.