--- title: "Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report" url: https://daily.dev/posts/content-ingestion-podcast-video-incident-report-qo6farq7g source_url: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/7/content-ingestion-and-podcast-video-incident-report type: article source: "Spotify Labs" published: 2026-07-20T16:30:49.961Z updated: 2026-07-20T16:31:08.921Z tags: ["distributed-systems"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Content Ingestion & Podcast Video Incident Report **[Spotify Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/spotify)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary On June 24, 2026, Spotify's video transcoding infrastructure hit maximum capacity, causing multi-hour delays in podcast episode publication. Five converging factors caused the outage: insufficient headroom for traffic spikes, a concurrent batch reprocessing job, recent quality improvements that increased per-item processing cost, a prioritization system malfunction that treated batch jobs equally to new submissions, and a resource scheduling bug underutilizing compute by ~10%. The team stopped the batch job, deployed a scheduling fix, and brought additional capacity online overnight. All queues cleared by 01:02 UTC on June 25. Follow-up actions include a 67% capacity increase, fixed resource scheduling, earlier monitoring alerts, improved prioritization, and better backpressure mechanisms throughout the pipeline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability](https://daily.dev/posts/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts-over-reliability-o2taxgktu) · The Pragmatic Engineer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/content-ingestion-podcast-video-incident-report-qo6farq7g)