diff --git a/kettle/stream.py b/kettle/stream.py
index 9b4fe0cdbe82..6c0f4c6c3cb0 100755
--- a/kettle/stream.py
+++ b/kettle/stream.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import multiprocessing.pool
 
 try:
+    from google.api_core import exceptions as api_exceptions
     from google.cloud import bigquery
     from google.cloud import pubsub_v1
     import google.cloud.exceptions
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@
 import make_db
 import make_json
 
-MAX_ROW_UPLOAD = 25
+MAX_ROW_UPLOAD = 10 # See https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/2855
 
 def process_changes(results):
     """Split GCS change events into trivial ack_ids and builds to further process."""
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ def retry(func, *args, **kwargs):
     for attempt in range(20):
         try:
             return func(*args, **kwargs)
-        except (socket.error, google.cloud.exceptions.ServerError):
+        except (socket.error, google.cloud.exceptions.ServerError, api_exceptions.BadRequest):
             # retry with exponential backoff
             traceback.print_exc()
             time.sleep(1.4 ** attempt)
@@ -131,9 +132,9 @@ def divide_chunks(l, bin_size=MAX_ROW_UPLOAD):
         # Insert rows with row_ids into table, retrying as necessary.
         errors = retry(bq_client.insert_rows, table, chunk, skip_invalid_rows=True)
         if not errors:
-            print('Loaded {} builds into {}'.format(len(chunk), table.full_table_id))
+            print(f'Loaded {len(chunk)} builds into {table.full_table_id}')
         else:
-            print('Errors:')
+            print(f'Errors on Chunk: {chunk}')
             pprint.pprint(errors)
             pprint.pprint(table.schema)