# Best Practices And Recommendations

Here are some recommended best practices for designing integrations in IICS.

* [Working In a Shared Environment](best-practices/shared-enviornment.md)
* [Naming Conventions](best-practices/naming.md)
* [AWS S3 as a Flat file alternative](best-practices/flat-file-alternative.md)
* [Secure Agents](best-practices/secure-agent.md)
* [Cloud Data Integration (CDI) and Cloud Application Integration (CAI)](best-practices/cai-vs-cdi.md)