In this five-part series, we'll be deep diving into why schemas are so important for scaling a robotics configuration management system and battling it out between different schema formats.

By the end of the series, you'll be an expert at what schemas are best for what use case and their respective tradeoffs. This will give you and your team the confidence to choose a schema that's best for your fleet.

In this chapter, we'll be introducing schemas: why they're powerful, what they are used for, and what we care about when choosing a schema.