diff --git a/ai_ta_backend/beam/ingest.py b/ai_ta_backend/beam/ingest.py
index 37bc90c7..830bcc8a 100644
--- a/ai_ta_backend/beam/ingest.py
+++ b/ai_ta_backend/beam/ingest.py
@@ -154,13 +154,14 @@ def loader():
 
 # Triggers determine how your app is deployed
 # @app.rest_api(
-@app.task_queue(workers=4,
-                max_pending_tasks=15_000,
-                callback_url='https://uiuc.chat/api/UIUC-api/ingestTaskCallback',
-                timeout=60 * 15,
-                max_retries=3,
-                loader=loader,
-                autoscaler=autoscaler)
+@app.task_queue(
+    workers=4,
+    max_pending_tasks=15_000,
+    callback_url='https://uiuc.chat/api/UIUC-api/ingestTaskCallback',
+    timeout=60 * 15,
+    max_retries=0,  # change to 3
+    loader=loader,
+    autoscaler=autoscaler)
 def ingest(**inputs: Dict[str, Any]):
 
   qdrant_client, vectorstore, s3_client, supabase_client, posthog = inputs["context"]
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ def run_ingest(course_name, s3_paths, base_url, url, readable_filename, content)
   success_fail_dict = run_ingest(course_name, s3_paths, base_url, url, readable_filename, content)
 
   # retries
-  num_retires = 5
+  num_retires = 3
   for retry_num in range(1, num_retires):
     if isinstance(success_fail_dict, str):
       print(f"STRING ERROR: {success_fail_dict = }")
@@ -211,23 +212,24 @@ def run_ingest(course_name, s3_paths, base_url, url, readable_filename, content)
   # Final failure / success check
   if success_fail_dict['failure_ingest']:
     print(f"INGEST FAILURE -- About to send to supabase. success_fail_dict: {success_fail_dict}")
-    document = {
-        "course_name":
-            course_name,
-        "s3_path":
-            s3_paths,
-        "readable_filename":
-            readable_filename,
-        "url":
-            url,
-        "base_url":
-            base_url,
-        "error":
-            success_fail_dict['failure_ingest']['error']
-            if isinstance(success_fail_dict['failure_ingest'], dict) else success_fail_dict['failure_ingest']
-    }
-    response = supabase_client.table('documents_failed').insert(document).execute()  # type: ignore
-    print(f"Supabase ingest failure response: {response}")
+    # Failure logging done in TaskCallback now, from frontend.
+    # document = {
+    #     "course_name":
+    #         course_name,
+    #     "s3_path":
+    #         s3_paths,
+    #     "readable_filename":
+    #         readable_filename,
+    #     "url":
+    #         url,
+    #     "base_url":
+    #         base_url,
+    #     "error":
+    #         success_fail_dict['failure_ingest']['error']
+    #         if isinstance(success_fail_dict['failure_ingest'], dict) else success_fail_dict['failure_ingest']
+    # }
+    # response = supabase_client.table('documents_failed').insert(document).execute()  # type: ignore
+    # print(f"Supabase ingest failure response: {response}")
   else:
     # Success case: rebuild nomic document map after all ingests are done
     # rebuild_status = rebuild_map(str(course_name), map_type='document')
@@ -1163,7 +1165,7 @@ def check_for_duplicates(self, texts: List[Dict], metadatas: List[Dict[str, Any]
     if incoming_s3_path:
       # check if uuid exists in s3_path -- not all s3_paths have uuids!
       incoming_filename = incoming_s3_path.split('/')[-1]
-      print("Full filename: ", incoming_filename)
+      # print("Full filename: ", incoming_filename)
       pattern = re.compile(r'[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}',
                            re.I)  # uuid V4 pattern, and v4 only.
       if bool(pattern.search(incoming_filename)):
@@ -1172,20 +1174,20 @@ def check_for_duplicates(self, texts: List[Dict], metadatas: List[Dict[str, Any]
       else:
         # do not remove anything and proceed with duplicate checking
         original_filename = incoming_filename
-      print("Filename after removing uuid: ", original_filename)
+      print(f"Filename after removing uuid: {original_filename}")
 
       supabase_contents = self.supabase_client.table(doc_table).select('id', 'contexts', 's3_path').eq(
           'course_name', course_name).like('s3_path', '%' + original_filename + '%').order('id', desc=True).execute()
       supabase_contents = supabase_contents.data
-      print("No. of S3 path based records retrieved: ",
-            len(supabase_contents))  # multiple records can be retrieved: 3.pdf and 453.pdf
+      print(f"No. of S3 path based records retrieved: {len(supabase_contents)}"
+           )  # multiple records can be retrieved: 3.pdf and 453.pdf
 
     elif url:
       original_filename = url
       supabase_contents = self.supabase_client.table(doc_table).select('id', 'contexts', 'url').eq(
           'course_name', course_name).eq('url', url).order('id', desc=True).execute()
       supabase_contents = supabase_contents.data
-      print("No. of URL-based records retrieved: ", len(supabase_contents))
+      print(f"No. of URL-based records retrieved: {len(supabase_contents)}")
     else:
       original_filename = None
       supabase_contents = []