Fabric Geo Zones matters because it turns sovereignty from a vague architecture claim into an operational routing question: which paths are eligible, which are forbidden, and what happens when no compliant path exists.
Choosing the right region is often presented as the answer to a sovereignty requirement. In reality, it is only one piece of the story because residency answers a storage question, not a network-path question.
I built a sandbox app for an AI product management class, but the real outcome was not the app. It was the realization that many teams can say where a system lives, yet still struggle to prove where its traffic actually went.
Recovering from shoulder surgery with one arm in a sling, I was already feeling sidelined when a friend hit me with a concrete challenge: Can we visualize data from PeeringDB.com in a way that reveals how companies actually interconnect, without days of manual work?