Corona has hit the economics of the countries all over the world. SMBs had to shut down abruptly, or more visual: some of your neighbors suddenly have the problem of earning no money at all. This is the story about a Thursday morning urgency call with the request to deliver an IT system so that the people don´t have to wait monthes for the monetary support of Bavarian government. At this point in time, other federal states had already failed epically, and there were rumors around that the German IT sector is not able to deliver modern, robust, scalable web systems. Would you have accepted the challenge? I will tell you about the journey  and learnings of a tremendous DevOps team building an auto-scalable cloud system within 5 days, about the euphoria of launching and about the stranger things thereafter.