[2] Historically, operations were seen as a late phase of the Waterfall model development process.
Such a view assumed that software was mostly immutable in production and that usage would be mostly stable.
[3] The role is gaining respect as a distinct specialty among developers and managers, and is considered by many to be a subset of the larger DevOps movement.
Web applications are unique in many ways, presenting challenges that other software types do not have to deal with: In this sense, WebOps simply refers to DevOps for web applications.
Web operations teams are tasked with a variety of responsibilities, including: Typically, web operations personnel are familiar with the TCP/IP stack, the http protocol, HTML page markup, and Rich Internet applications (RIAs) such as AJAX and the like.