[cma]

Real time has a technical meaning in software and that's what he is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Live updated logs meant for human readability shouldn't need anything hard or soft real-time in the technical sense.

[rusanu]

Immediate (in human 'immediate' sense) visibility of a change via what basically is an ETL pipeline absolutely meets the technical meaning of "near-real-time data-processing" as in that the very link. The article meets "real-time ETL" in a very technical sense.