The real time feature is 2-fold: 1. Feathers supports websockets, so you can push data to clients as the data is created/updated, etc. 2. The Feathers server

The real time feature is 2-fold: 1. Feathers supports websockets, so you can push data to clients as the data is created/updated, etc. 2. The Feathers server can decide what types of events to send to the client. If you have multiple servers, you can keep the events in-sync by using redis/activemq with the feathers-sync module.