YugabyteDB is a modern, cloud-native distributed SQL database that meets the challenges of building microservices and born-in-the-cloud apps in a multi-cloud world. It provides multiple APIs by converging SQL and NoSQL, simplifying polyglot data architecture needs for enterprises. The YugabyteDB Spark Connector brings together Apache Spark with YugabyteDB, allowing seamless and native read/write operations between the two systems. This integration removes complexity and guesswork, making applications more scalable and performant. With the connector, complex workloads can be translated to SQL and executed by YugabyteDB directly. The workshop demonstrated how to build an application using the YugabyteDB Spark Connector, including reading from YugabyteDB, performing ETL with window functions in Spark, saving results back to YugabyteDB, querying data efficiently with column pruning and predicate pushdowns, and more.