They do have meaning, but the meaning is orthogonal from metrics like total use throughout an industry: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/graduation

They do have meaning, but the meaning is orthogonal from metrics like total use throughout an industry: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/graduation_criteria.md#graduation-stage https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/graduation_cri... There is little doubt in my mind that gRPC is a larger and more impactful project than Istio.