[kasey_junk]

A quote from the LinkedIn blog post linked in the article:

“But before we get too far let me clarify something that is a bit confusing. Every programmer is familiar with another definition of logging—the unstructured error messages or trace info an application might write out to a local file using syslog or log4j. For clarity I will call this "application logging". The application log is a degenerative form of the log concept I am describing”

[aloknnikhil]

Fair enough. But I don't think quoting this for logging in the tracing sense is wrong here. He does acknowledge that trace logs are a degenerative form of logs from the perspective of log processing. The only difference being in the semantics of human readable text v/s binary logs.