The workshop on building predictive machine learning with Flink will cover the design principles of microservices using an event-driven approach, Apache Kafka as an event plane, and Micronaut as a JVM framework for building lightweight microservices. Micronaut's integration with Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud enables developers to leverage event-driven architecture, improve scalability, maintain clear separation of concerns, system resilience, and cost savings. The workshop will explore the benefits of using Micronaut, including its use of sensible defaults in application configuration, support for best-practice patterns for building JVM applications, and auto-configuration capabilities. It will also delve into data serialization strategies, schema management with Confluent Cloud's Stream Governance, and how to configure a Micronaut application to use Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud.