Podcast Episode 5: Why Performance Matters. A Conversation with Przemek Hertel

In the latest episode of the Higson Podcast, we speak with Przemek Hertel, software architect and co-creator of Higson, about one of the engine’s most defining qualities: performance.

Przemek shares the story behind Higson’s architecture - born from the need to process millions of insurance records efficiently and explains the technical decisions that make it one of the fastest Business Rules Engines on the market.

Topics we cover include:

• Why milliseconds matter when you’re recalculating premiums or running high-traffic systems
• How Higson maintains constant lookup time — even with decision tables containing 1 million+ rows
• What makes Higson’s memory footprint and CPU efficiency stand out
• How performance improvements directly lower infrastructure costs

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/35mjLAC3r6sS8fr0X4kTIr?si=pzR_tXIaTyiKf_H8pu6zEw